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Title: A Season in Dornoch : Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands by Lorne Rubenstein, Sean Connery ISBN: 0743223365 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 November, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 Amazon Price(USD): $16.10 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: A Wee Bit of Dram of A Golf Book
Comment: Rubenstein seeks out the Scottish course that he enjoyed 25 years past, and discovers much more than he bargained for.
This eminent, wordcrafter contributes a delightful tale of golf, not "cart-ball" as the game as become on the NA contienent. Here, it's not booming drives and high stick shots, but more the relaxation and wide open spaces with the tranquility and sereneness the game has had in these Highlands.
One gets somewhat the feel that golfers rave about in Scotland, and this fine book helps those of us who have never been closer than say London in my case to get a taste of what it's like to be near the sea in sand formed links.
Golfers will reverberate to his find wordsmithing such as: "Golf, not marriage, is the triumph of hope over experience. I don't konow why I shuld feel hopeful after playing dreadfully for thirteen holes and now facing the most comfounding hole on the course. That's golf. That's a golfer."
Such charming writing about what every golfer that I know has ever played speaks of Dornoch, it is the essence of Donald Ross and links golf and everything the game is about.
What the season life at Dornoch gives Rubenstein he also passes on, the Clearances and the plight of this people of pipes and drams and links and books. Sounds like the perfect village life many of us dream of living in.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Season in Dornoch
Comment: I bought this book for my husband. We loved Scotland and he loves golf so I thought this was the perfect book. It took us back to our time in Scotland and Denny's first view of St. Andrews. I recomment this book for any avid golfer. It was a hit at my house.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ace in the Hole!
Comment: Lorne Rubenstein has scored a literary "Hole in One" with this book. How so? - He has successfully tackled that most difficult of subjects - a community and its local characters, as seen by an outsider (or "incomer" as known locally in the Highlands) who is living slap bang in the middle of town. Not only this, but the landscape and its people are seen in an historical context that is dominated by land ownership and the forced clearances of tenants.
Pretty heavy stuff, you might protest, but no - a charming, light hearted insight into Dornoch life that really tells you something about the Highlands of Scotland, its history, its romance, its golf.....and Madonna! Lorne does this by getting seriously involved in the heart of things - he doesn't sit around on the sidelines and ponder - He gets his boots muddy by psyching himself up & competing in the Carnegie Shield golf championships at Dornoch; sharing the excitement of playing the ancient, traditional links of nearby Brora & Golspie; tramping & cycling around the countryside and most of all by meeting as many local folk as possible, downing a dram and recording their philosophy of life, love & the golfing universe.
We also learn something about Lorne & his wife Nell, a partnership which has true romance peeking out between the pages.
If you have ever dreamed of spending a summer in the Highlands of Scotland, read this book - Rubenstein has got it spot on .. an Ace in all respects.
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Title: A Golfer's Education by Darren Kilfara ISBN: 1565123018 Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 Amazon Price(USD): $17.47 |
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Title: The Dewsweepers: Seasons of Golf and Friendship by James Dodson ISBN: 0525945822 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 11 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 Amazon Price(USD): $17.47 |
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Title: Golf in Scotland : A Travel-Planning Guide with Profiles of 60 Great Courses by Allan McAllister Ferguson ISBN: 0971032602 Publisher: WF Enterprises Pub. Date: 15 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 Amazon Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Scrapbook of Old Tom Morris by David Joy, Old Tom Morris ISBN: 1886947457 Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 Amazon Price(USD): $31.50 |
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Title: A Nasty Bit of Rough by David Feherty ISBN: 1590710002 Publisher: Rugged Land Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 Amazon Price(USD): $16.77 |
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