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What: “Cinderella Story: My Life in Golf� by Bill Murray with George Peper

Retail price: $19.95.

To casual golf fans, the best tournament each year is the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, because Bill Murray will be there providing hilarious running commentary and dancing with members of the gallery in a sand trap.

This is the best book on golf you can give to a casual fan and is a must for any Murray fan.

“Cinderella Story� (the title was taken from a line spoken by Murray in the movie “Caddyshack�) is really two books in one.

The first part is a series of side-splitting anecdotes about Murray’s adventures on the course with great golfers such as Arnold Palmer (“He and Patton were born to lead armies�), Jack Nicklaus, et al, and with other celebrities such as Clint Eastwood and Michael Jordan (“In golf, his nickname should be ‘Sand’, not ‘Air.’ �).

The second part serves as a mini-autobiography. Murray tells of his childhood growing up as a caddie, working for $1 an hour. I won’t ruin the story of how he lost his job, but it involves a blind golfer and a hole in one tournament. Connect the dots yourself.

He also talks about the making of “Caddyshack,� which Murray calls “arguably the greatest film ever made, if it’s a drunken argument.�

Murray’s writing style is much like how he talks, a lot of run-on sentences with a tinge of lounge-singer sincerity. But it is the perfect style for this book, which will have you laughing out loud several times.

“Cinderella Story� isn’t perfect. It’s choppy, jumps from topic to topic without warning, and apparently wasn’t read by a copy editor before it was published. But it succeeds brilliantly in the two most important areas: It’s funny, and it shows Murray’s love for golf.

And after reading it, you’ll want to pop “Caddyshack� into your VCR.