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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Golf
In 1977, Lorne Rubenstein, an avid golfer, travelled to Dornoch in
the Scottish Highlands. Young and adrift in life, he was profoundly
affected by the experience. As he writes, 'My week in Dornoch
introduced me to a place with which I felt a connection. A week
wasn't living there, but it was enough for Dornoch to imprint
itself on my mind.' Twenty-three years later, in 2000, now an
established golf writer, Rubenstein returned to Dornoch to spend an
entire summer. He rented a flat close to the Royal Dornoch Golf
Club and set out to explore the area on many levels. Rubenstein
writes about the melancholy history of the Highland Clearances,
which have left the beautiful landscape sparsely populated to this
day. He writes about the friendly and sometimes eccentric people
who love their town, their golf and their single malt whisky, and
who delight in sharing them with visitors. But most of all he
writes about a summer lived in a community where golf is king and
the golf course is part of the common lands where townspeople
stroll of an evening. Rubenstein is able to return to thinking of
golf as play, as opposed to a game of analysis and effort. A Season
in Dornoch is an affectionate portrait of a place and the people
who live there, a fascinating look at golf and the spirit and
skills it calls forth, and a perceptive and ultimately moving
memoir of one man's quest to experience again the pure love of
sport that he knew in his youth.
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