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 enlarge | Author: George Peper
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: EBooks
List Price: $17.99
Buy New: $5.49
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 9110
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3520684129
ASIN: B000GCFY08
Publication Date: June 19, 2006
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 A good read if you have been to St Andrews July 23, 2007
George Peper is no Herbert Warren Wind, but his book is an enjoyable read for those who have spent time in St Andrews.
 Wonderfull writing of golf and life in its birthplace July 19, 2007
I loved this book. It was the perfect combination of life and golf in golf's birthplace - St Andrews. The writer provided an excellent look into life in the golf club and the village of St Andrews; their people, the culture and the history. Mr Peper writes with an excellent dry witt and makes you feel as if you know him personally. I enjoy books the most when I feel like I can relate to the place and people being written about and the author was very good at doing this. While being a single digit handicap golfer and a past editor of Golf Magazine and traveling in a very select inside group of professional golfers, media personalities and celebrities, Mr. Peper never took himself too seriously as a golfer, a writer or as a person. The more I read this book, the harder it became to put down and the more I looked forward to reading it the next day. It was educational, enlightening and enjoyable.It is a book you can just lean back, put your feet up and enjoy while at any time of day or night. The only thing that bothered me about this book was wondering how the author pronounced his name, Pepper or Peeper so I contacted a writer who interviewed the author for a magazine and was told that it was Pepper and that he was as enjoyable and selfless in person as he seems in his books. I look forward to Mr Peper's next book.
Great, interesting, funny : you live un st. andrews May 16, 2007
Thanks George Peper!!!!:
For one of the best golf books. Its as if I was actually there.
I can`t wait to go to the "OLD COURSE" and expirience the magic you narrated in your book.
The srtucture of the story (expirience)is wonderfull and adictive.
You read the first page and want to keep on reading till you can barely keep your eyes open.
If you love reading and golf this book is a must read.
 An American on the Old Course February 19, 2007
Mr. Peper has been entertaining American readers for many years. This well written effort is of particular interest to those who have spent many summers in Scotland, but it should also catch the interest of non-golfers.
less than meets the eye August 28, 2006
12 out of 19 found this review helpful
If you've never been to Scotland, or want a feel for how it is to play the Old Course and the others in St Andrews regularly, you'll enjoy this book somewhat.
However, don't be misled by the title. This book is not about what it's like to *live* in St Andrews. Mr Peper's orbit consisted of the town's golf courses, a couple of the clubs (mostly the R&A and the St Andrews Golfing Society), the Old Course Hotel's workout room, the local Tesco, his immediate neighbors, and his golfing partners. There's very little about the feel or life of the town itself beyond the usual observations about the rhythm of university or resort towns (students or tourists equal busy) - heavens, he never even goes to pubs.:). The book ends with the observations that life moves at a different pace than America (the Pepers moved from NYC, and the pace of life in NYC is not exactly representative of America) and that golf isn't all about expensive country clubs (only an original or compelling observation if you belong to one). This is Scottish life as lived by well-off Americans who are living in one of the prime resort towns, but do not become *of* it or seem to share much of the life of the town.
The few political observations also are grating precisely because they're superfluous to the book's subject: they're not fans of the Iraq invasion and miss the daily New York Times for its factual reporting (written with a straight face, even after all the NYT scandals).
Finally, as an American who has travelled to Scotland (and Fife) frequently, I was dismayed to see the rest of Fife, and Fife golf, given such short shrift - a classic American mistake. Some of the best, even amazing, golf in the world exists in Fife *outside* of St Andrews. Mr Peper mentions some of these wonderful courses in passing, but I thought it a shame that he chose not to open a wider world for his readers than the Old Course/R&A. St Andrews in many ways is no more representative of Scotland than New York is of America - also not the most original observation, but one that seems not to have occurred to Mr Peper. Ninety-nine percent of Scottish golf is very accessible to all, and ninety-nine percent of the clubs are most welcoming. The R&A world in many ways mirrors the expensive American country clubs that he in the end sees in a new light, which is ironic indeed.
New Worlders who have provided readers with excellent insight into life and golf in Scotland include Lorne Rubenstein's A Season in Dornoch, Michael Bamberger's To the Linksland, Jim Finegan's fine book about Scottish golf, and Curtis Gillespie's book. Those should be read before you start this one. And if you want to know how to play the Old Course, go get Desmond Muirhead and Tip Anderson (Palmer's and Lema's caddie) on that subject.
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