| Par 10,000 |  | Author: David Ewen
Publisher: Mainstream
Category: Book
Buy New: $96.93
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Seller: SiBooksLtd
Sales Rank: 5,302,363
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 1840184442
EAN: 9781840184440
ASIN: 1840184442
Publication Date: December 2001
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Product Description
At the start of the summer 2000, David Ewen found himself standing on the edge of the North Sea with a golf club drawn and nothing to aim at but Scotland. The plan: to hit a ball across the birthplace of the game, negotiating roads, towns, fields, rivers and mountains, camping where it came to rest. And the par for this quarter-million-yard course? Eight thousand. Here is someone quietly raging against the suffocating constraints of modern living, a grown man driving, pitching, putting and hacking his way across our increasingly cramped country, following his ball into the remotest corners of Scottish life. En route, David encounters a vast range of people with whom he discusses everything from land access to e.coli and fox-hunting. He finds numerous bizarre situations, including the experience of shearing sheep with a winner of "One Man and His Dog" and having his last golf ball blessed by a deacon before blasting it off into Loch Leven. The result is a snapshot of Scotland in the millennial year -part travelogue, part polemic, part personal memoir. An unashamedly mindless adventure, "Par 10,000" is a quirky tale of one man's rebellion against today's fast-living society and debunking of golf with all rules and regulations.
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