A Course Called Ireland

Release on 2009-02-19 | by Tom Coyne

A Course Called Ireland is the story of a walking- averse golfer who treks his way around an entire country, spending sixteen weeks playing every seaside hole in Ireland and often battling through all four seasons in one Irish afternoon.

Author: Tom Coyne
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781101015872
Category: Travel
Page: 320
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A Course Called Ireland

An epic Celtic sojourn in search of ancestors, nostalgia, and the world?s greatest round of golf In his thirties, married, and staring down impending fatherhood, Tom Coyne was well familiar with the last refuge of the adult male: the golfing trip. Intent on designing a golf trip to end all others, Coyne looked to Ireland, the place where his father had taught him to love the game years before. As he studied a map of the island and plotted his itinerary, it dawned on Coyne that Ireland was ringed with golf holes. The country began to look like one giant round of golf, so Coyne packed up his clubs and set off to play all of it. And since Irish golfers didn?t take golf carts, neither would he. He would walk the entire way. A Course Called Ireland is the story of a walking- averse golfer who treks his way around an entire country, spending sixteen weeks playing every seaside hole in Ireland and often battling through all four seasons in one Irish afternoon. Coyne plays everything from the top-ranked links in the world to nine-hole courses crowded with livestock. Along the way, he searches out his family?s roots, discovers that a once-poor country has been transformed by an economic boom, and finds that the only thing tougher to escape than Irish sand traps are Irish pubs. By turns hilarious and poetic, A Course Called Ireland is a magnificent tour of a vibrant land and a paean to the world?s greatest game.

Language: un
Pages: 320

A Course Called Ireland

Authors: Tom Coyne

Categories: Travel

Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-19 - Publisher: Penguin

Language: un
Pages: 336

A Course Called Scotland

Authors: Tom Coyne

Categories: Sports & Recreation

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-04 - Publisher: Simon & Schuster

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “One of the best golf books this century.” —Golf Digest Tom Coyne’s A Course Called Scotland is a heartfelt and humorous celebration of his quest to play golf on every links course in Scotland, the birthplace of the game he loves. For much of his

Language: un
Pages: 416

A Course Called America

Authors: Tom Coyne

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-25 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Tom Coyne's highly anticipated and entertaining conclusion to his trilogy of epic golf adventures A Course Called Ireland and A Course Called Scotland--Coyne plays his way across the United States in search of the great American golf course.

Language: en
Pages: 173

The Kilfenora Teaboy

Authors: Colm Toibin, Colm Tóibín

Categories: Literary Criticism

Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher:

Over the past twenty years, Paul Durcan has become an essential presence in Irish life, and is internationally known for his poetry. This is the first full-length study of his work, A critical evaluation of the essential themes in his poems. Contribu