Looking for the Best Links in Scotland? This Man Played 111 Rounds
In A Course Called Scotland, Tom Coyne goes on a two-month-long adventure and comes to grips with a game that’s less than perfect.
Illustration: Cari Vander Yacht for Bloomberg Businessweek
Americans have been trained to think of golf courses as the province of the elite and the effete, but to hear Tom Coyne tell it, in the British Isles, and specifically Scotland, golf is the birthright of every man, woman, and child.
Coyne, whose books include the best-selling A Gentleman’s Game, has spent 20 years writing about playing golf seemingly nonstop. His last book, A Course Called Ireland, serves as a travelogue for the country’s great links destinations, peppered with his own ruminations on family, friends, and the camaraderie that grows out of a day on the greens.