Steven Pressfield's 1995 novel — a retelling of the Bhagavad Gita set in a 1930s golf match in Savannah, Georgia — in which a mysterious caddy (Bagger Vance = Bhagavan = God) guides a broken golfer back to his authentic game.
Creates the sports spiritual allegory as literary form — The Legend of Bagger Vance translates the Bhagavad Gita's core argument (act in accordance with your authentic nature, detached from results) into a golf narrative in a way that makes Vedic philosophy accessible to Western popular culture.
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