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The Castle Course How Scotsman
David McLay Kidd and His Ragtag Band |
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A wunderkind designer lands the most
coveted gig in golf, Designing the first golf course at Bandon Dunes in Oregon at the age of 27 brought David McLay Kidd worldwide acclaim and commissions to create exclusive private clubs around the globe. But when it was announced that the town of St. Andrews—the Home of Golf—planned to build its first public championship course since 1914, the young Scot would have to scratch and claw to earn the right. Kidd prevailed and assembled a dream team that fashioned the most anticipated new course in golf history. Behind the scenes, personality clashes, pint-fueled tirades, creative conflicts, and bureaucratic red tape combined to make the experience at once maddening yet unforgettable. |
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"It's only fitting that David McLay Kidd leaves his giant footprints on the sacred sod of St. Andrews. Now a masterpiece is written about a masterpiece that is built. A book that will be read and reviewed for as long as the great game of golf is ever played." Jim Nantz |
Author Scott Gummer chronicles the days in the dirt and the nights in the pubs, with exclusive access to David Kidd and unprecedented cooperation from the St. Andrews Links Trust. The Seventh at St. Andrews is a process story of how a band of diverse artists came together on a derelict potato farm and unearthed a field of golfing dreams. This, despite never-ending obstacles that ran the gamut from having to hide a massive sewage plant to finding buried treasure to creating a right-of-way for cows to enduring life-threatening medical emergencies to surviving the circus that is The Open Championship. |
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"Scott Gummer is one dead body away from writing a murder mystery. Who knew that building a golf course could have so much suspense, involve so many outrageous characters and be so much fun? Fun to read about, anyway. Gummer's book is a sheer pleasure." |
characters: Kidd, the hard-driven, sharp-tongued taskmaster whose name and neck are on the line, the cutup father he longs to please, Kidd’s enigmatic clients, his relentless right-hand man and the motley crew led by a hardscrabble “da Vinci with a dozer.” A breathtaking portrait of passion and vision against the longest of odds, The Seventh at St. Andrews is golf history in the making. |
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| "Who’d
think a book on building a golf course would be suspenseful and funny?
Scott Gummer brings his
A game to The Seventh at St. Andrews, crafting a
behind-the-scenes look at one of the most important new tracks of our time.
Already controversial in Scotland, Gummer’s account—like the Castle Course itself—is one of a kind. Kevin Cook author of Tommy's Honor |
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Paul Kimber Senior Designer |
Mick McShane Lead Shaper |
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