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 enlarge | Author: James W. Finegan
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 433425
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0743264843
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780743264846
ASIN: 0743264843
Publication Date: January 7, 2004
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The best book on Scottish golf available March 20, 1998
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Iread this book thoroughly and gleefully before my first trip to Scotland. I must have planned my trip a thousand different ways because of it. Around each literary corner lay another wonderful surprise! Even when the author was not entirely enchanted with a particular course, he found elements to admire. And on the courses that he loved,his hole-by-hole descriptions made one feel as if he were playing an exhilerating round with a dear friend. The reviews of accomodations were charming, but all were far out of my price range. I would love to have experienced the elegance of Skibo Castle in Dornoch, but I settled for a comfortable B&B and,thanks to the author's advice, enjoyed one of the finest golfing experiences of my life. I'll be returning to Scotland shortly, and you can be certain that this book is a big part of my planning.
A great guide for both the armchair traveler and the golfer. August 29, 1996
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
James W. Finegan, the retired golf columnist of the Philadelphia Inquirer, has written a gem of a book.This book is a companion of his "Emerald Fairways and Foam Flecked Seas" about the great courses of Ireland.Both books are boundless with their descriptions and characterizations of those legendary links courses of the Irish and Scottish Islands. Mr. Finegan takes us for a delightful ride through both countries for the golf of our life. We live through him, and his non-playing wife, the joy of heather, gorse and salt air blowing down the sand dunes. The people we meet are ordinary and extraordinary but the real heroes and heroines are the courses. From the isolated Macharanish on the Kintyre penisula of Western Scotland to the blue collar resort courses of the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. There on the first tee of Portstewart we feel the extrasensory thrill of blasting our drive down into the wild mix of towering sand dunes toward an unknown finish. Mr. Finegan has done for golf travel what Bruce Chatwin and Bill Bryson did for the intrepid shoe-hoofing vagabound. Read both books and be doubly rewarded. No bogies here.
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