The Secret History of Golf in Scotland | 
 enlarge | Author: Duncan Macpherson
Publisher: St. Croix Antiquarian Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1563995
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0978640004
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780978640002
ASIN: 0978640004
Publication Date: July 17, 2006
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Product Description
This story about golf takes place in 16th Century Scotland and is inspired by the earliest historical records about the greatest game. In it Ian MacPherson, a dirt poor farmer and so-so golfer, decides he must win his towns annual golfing tournament or face financial ruin. Galbraith, the Scottish Laird who rules the area, has financial problems of his own and also has designs on the tournament. He hires a golfing ringer from Edinburgh, Black Bart, to try and steal the tournament from the locals. Along with fascinating descriptions about early golf, there is plenty of earthy humor, cruel deception and local Scottish color. The author is a descendant of the MacPherson clan and swears at least some of what happens is fact, passed down to him from family stories.
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What a story!! July 2, 2006
Mr. MacPherson and the editors of this book, Gary Goodman and Mark Ziegler, have turned the usually "stuffy" subject of golf on its head.
Easily one of the most humorous and refreshing stories I have read in quite some time.
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