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Author | : Scott Gummer |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2007-10-04 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1440623325 |
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An acclaimed Scottish golf course architect who had to go to America to make his name lands the most coveted commission in all of golf: to design the first new course in almost a century for the town of St. Andrews, the game’s ancestral home. David McLay Kidd became a wunderkind golf course architect before he was thirty years old, thanks to his universally lauded design at Bandon Dunes on the Oregon coast. When the town of St. Andrews announced in 2001 that a new championship course was in the works—the town’s first since 1914—Kidd fought off all comers and earned the right to make golf history. Author Scott Gummer was there to chronicle the days in the dirt and the nights in the pubs, the politics and histrionics, all with exclusive access to David Kidd, his team, and the St. Andrews Links Trust. Unfolding in arresting you-are-there scenes, The Seventh at St. Andrews follows the young master at work as Kidd, with his sharp tongue, leads his accomplices in transforming a plot of flat, uninspiring farmland—smack in the middle of which sits the town’s sewage plant—into a rollicking golfing adventure and the most anticipated golf course opening in a generation. Murphy’s Law seems to govern the process, however, as everything that can go wrong seemingly does: from epic wooly weather, to cattle grazing on the site, to vociferous opposition among the townsfolk, to bureaucrats so stuck in their ways they cannot be budged even with one of Kidd’s bulldozers. The story chronicles the decade-long journey from the first notion of a seventh course to its official opening. Kidd & Co. exceed everyone’s expectations by building a magnificent throwback course that looks to have been shaped by the wind and rain and nature rather than modern machinery. The Seventh at St. Andrews brings the underappreciated art of golf course design to life, and along the way profiles an unforgettable cast of characters that includes Kidd’s jovial father, a golf legend in his own right; Kidd’s taciturn right-hand man; and the roustabout Scottish shaper, the Da Vinci in a ’dozer who is the heart of Kidd’s crew.
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Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Golf course architects |
ISBN | : 9781436265881 |
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Author | : Michael Brown |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178327168X |
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First extended treatment of the city of St Andrews during the middle ages.
Author | : Richard Mackenzie |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780553108248 |
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A masterful celebration--in words and vintage photos--of the famous St. Andrews golf course in Scotland, A Wee Nip at the 19th Hole takes an evocative look at the role that caddies have played in shaping this centuries-old game.
Author | : George Clifford Thomas |
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Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Golf courses |
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Author | : Sean Zak |
Publisher | : Triumph Books |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2024-04-02 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1637273347 |
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A compelling journey through the heart and soul of golf, bringing the sport's history and the current state of the game to life When Sean Zak arrived in St. Andrews, Scotland— the mecca of golf— he was determined to spend his summer in search of the game's true essence. He found it everywhere— in the dirt, firm and proper, a sandy soil that you don't see in America. He found it in the people who inherited the game from their grandparents, who inherited it from their grandparents. He found it in the structures that prop up the game— cheap memberships and "private courses" that aren't private at all. At every turn he also found LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed entity which descended on the professional circuit during that summer of the 150th Open Championship. Zak's personal personal pilgrimage now offered him a front-row seat at a cultural reckoning, one which pitted the game's longstanding customs against a divisive new force.Searching in St. Andrews is the vivid chronicle of an unforgettable sojourn in the birthplace of golf, informed by sublime mornings on the Old Course playing with just four clubs, evenings spent analyzing legal documents riddled with greed, and the singular characters he encountered along the way. Readers will meet a 92-year-old who just learned how to putt, explore the many differences between Golf Over There and Golf Over Here, and even experience caddying on the PGA Tour, from deciphering the yardage books to keeping your player on time to drinking until sunrise after you've missed the cut.Written with heartfelt curiosity and charm, this is an essential portrait of golf amid the crosswinds of tradition, progress, and power.
Author | : John Haldane |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2011-12-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1845402901 |
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In this wide ranging volume of philosophical essays John Haldane explores some central areas of social life and issues of intense academic and public debate. These include the question of ethical relativism, fundamental issues in bioethics, the nature of individuals in relation to society, the common good, public judgement of prominent individuals, the nature and aims of education, cultural theory and the relation of philosophy to art and architecture.
Author | : Tom Doak |
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Release | : 2016-09-20 |
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ISBN | : 9780990708629 |
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Critical reviews of golf courses in the northern United States and Canada.
Author | : Stuart Piggin |
Publisher | : Banner of Truth |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780851514284 |
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"The St. Andrews Seven" is about a university Professor, Thomas Chalmers and six of his students. The story of their years together at Scotland's oldest university is a record of the most remarkable flowering of evangelistic and missionary enthusiasm in the history of Scottish Christianity. --from publisher description.
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Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Jamaica |
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