A Course Called Scotland by Tom Coyne

One of the funnier books I’ve read in years.

I was laughing out loud every 2nd page. It’s been compared with Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods.

I downloaded because I was in Scotland, en route to St. Andrews.

Tom Coyne is the editor of quarterly, The Golfer’s Journal.

In 2010 he published A Course Called Ireland, where he WALKED around the perimeter of the Republic and Northern Ireland, without the use of any transportation, playing the courses en route: 36 courses, 648 holes, over 2,000,000 yards.

Reluctantly — urged by his drunken best friend — he wrote A Course Called Scotland, 111 courses in the home of golf.

Tom chose mostly LINKS courses, hoping to learn the secret of golf in Scotland.

Courses in Scotland were originally set-up on the worst coastal land — no good for farming. Golfers shared the space with sheep and rabbits that kept the foliage down.

He did include some links courses in England and Wales, as well.