Preferred lies
Subtitle: a journey to the heart of  golf
By: Andrew Greig
Edition: Paperback edition.
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780753821565
Subjects: Social aspects; Golf
Description: “A book about golf that will appeal to both players and non players, by Scottish poet and novelist. Surely golf is a game for posh people, country clubs and networking businessmen, for unfortunate sweaters, politics and trousers? Andrew Greig grew up in Scotland, where playing golf is as natural as breathing. He sees the game as the great leveller, and has played on the Old course at St Andrews as well as on the miners' courses of Yorkshire. He writes about the different cultural manifestations of the game, the history, the geography, the different social meanings, as well as the subjective  experience, the reflections between shots. He plays alone, with friends and brothers, with ghosts. He is looking for the essence of golf, the pure heart of it, which can be found, Andrew Greig believes, on the free 9 hole course on North Ronaldsay.”--Publisher&#x2019;s description.
Notes: Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006.
Table of contents: title: You must begin again; title: 1st 'Laird' (North Ronaldsay); title: 2nd 'Travesrv' (North Ronaldsay); title: 3rd 'Aliosaurus' (Bathgate); title: 4th 'Duff' (Aberdour); title: 5th 'The Shining' (North Berwick); title: 6th 'Jewel' (Shiskine); title: 7th &#x2018;Initiation&#x2019; (St Andrews old course); title: 8th &#x2018;Good Isle' (Gigha); title: 9th 'Brothers' (Glenbervie); title: 10th &#x2018;Gilders' (Elie); title: 11th 'Colum Cille' (Iona); title: 12th 'The Shot' (Lundin Links); title: 13th 'Shades' (Stromness); title: 14th 'Big Easy' (Forres); title: 15th 'Equanimity' (Old Moray); title: 16th 'Extraction' (Curden Bay, Nairn); title: 17th &#x2018;The Zard&#x2019; (Royal Dornoch, Forres); title: 18th 'Return' (Dollar).