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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"In the span of one unforgettable year, Coyne crisscrosses the country in search of its greatest golf experience, playing every course to ever host a US Open, along with more than two hundred hidden gems and heavyweights, visiting all fifty states to find a better understanding of his home country and countrymen. Coyne's journey begins where the US Open and US Amateur got their start, historic Newport Country Club in Rhode Island. As he travels from...
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English
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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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English
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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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For much of his adult life, bestselling author Tom Coyne has been chasing a golf ball around the globe. When he was in college, studying abroad in London, he entered the lottery for a prized tee time in Scotland, grabbing his clubs and jumping the train to St. Andrews as his friends partied in Amsterdam; later, he golfed the entirety of Ireland's coastline, chased pros through the mini-tours, and attended grueling Qualifying Schools in Australia,...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
At twelve-years-old, Timmy shows the early promise of a champion in the making. When his father sends him to caddy at a local country club, he finds a world where privilege meets the working class. With the help of a golf teacher with a broken past, he learns more than just technique and sportsmanship.
