Kyle Tait
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A Course Called Ireland is the story of a golfer allergic to exercise who treks his way around an entire country, spending sixteen weeks covering nearly sixty courses, nine hundred holes, and more than a thousand hard-fought miles. He encounters blisters and chafing, dodges fearsome feral canines and drifting cars, lives out of a backpack and washes his wardrobe in bathroom sinks, and survives all four seasons in one Irish afternoon. Accompanied by...
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Think country-club clinic meets Navy Seals training. I will pay any price, bear any burden, leave my home to follow the seasons, build my own swing studio in the basement, construct a practice green in my backyard. . . . Everything the big boys have access to, I want double.
Like most amateur golfers, Tom Coyne had often wondered whether the pros won because they were more talented or because they were more obsessed. Overweight and burdened by a...