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Brassies, Mashies, and Bootleg Scotch - Growing Up on America's First Heroic Golf Course (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 790
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Brassies, Mashies, and Bootleg Scotch - Growing Up on America's First Heroic Golf Course (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R479
Discovery Miles 4 790
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A hundred years or so ago, kids growing up in St. Andrews,
Scotland, kids like Bill Kilpatrick’s father, took to golf as
naturally as to breathing. Accordingly, the prevailing opinion was
that any layabout could play golf, whereas a greenkeeper was
someone to be reckoned with. And a greenkeeper (a term much
preferred to “golf course superintendent”) was what
Kilpatrick’s father became. Kilpatrick’s memoir of growing up
on golf courses is at once a window on another time—when golf was
played mainly with balata balls, hickory shafts, and handmade
spoons, mashies, and cleeks—and a ground-level view of what
maintaining a golf course meant when artisanship, instinct, and
experience carried the day. A charming narrative of a boy’s
relationship with his adored, occasionally impatient, and always
forgiving father, Brassies, Mashies, and Bootleg Scotch takes us to
some of the most notable golf clubs in America and introduces us to
a delightful cast of characters, from giants of golf history to
behind-the-scenes eccentrics to walk-on stars like New York Giants
pitcher Hal Schumacher. Readers get a rare glimpse of a vanished
world through Kilpatrick’s recollections of the daily routines of
his father as a dedicated greenkeeper and of his own experiences as
a caddy on the courses that were his family’s way of life.
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