Where Golf is Great: The Finest Courses of Scotland and Ireland
by James Finegan
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Author: James FineganEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2006-09-30
ISBN: 1579652719
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Artisan
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Book Review: Will Rogers introduction to links golf
Summary: 4 Stars
I do own this book.
I love links golf as much as anyone, but Jim Finnegan is like Will Rogers, he never met a golf course he could criticize. Larry Lambrecht's photographs are spectacular and many of the recommendations for lodging and outside activities are only safe at best. This is a fine and wonderful even feel good book, but know its limitations.
This book is lovely to look at but don't expect any critical reviews here. Jim is quite a passionate fellow but take the writings with as a starting point. Those with real experience will recognize that the book is written to highlight the highs and ignore the quirks and exacerbates the American golfer's tendency to go and notch the belt by visiting "only the best" golf courses often at astronomical prices.
There is a lot to be learned by visiting many "little" golf courses in the UK and Ireland to truly understand how links golf is a such a treasure and how it is part of local life. Links is not just some eccentricity that one must do to complete one's golf life. There is so much to be gained by just traveling willy-nilly to the "little" places such as going the 5 miles to Girvan to play the odd little half-links course there while on your Tour Bus trip to Turnberry. As an example, the book almost excludes the fine Kintyre course which Mr. Finnegan merely gives a third of a page coverage. Girvan, what Girvan? There you can meet and play with locals on their course while playing 8 of the best par 3's you will ever play and not approach the wee par of 64.
Indeed, this is where golf is great, but the book offers an incomplete elitist view of the American obsession with only the best. I do admit that for most, this is probably all they ever really wanted in the first place.
Summary of Where Golf is Great: The Finest Courses of Scotland and Ireland
Every golfer who’s worth his favorite putter knows where golf is great: Scotland, birthplace of the game and still its most important shrine, from the splendor of St. Andrews to the regal resort at Gleneagles; and Ireland, where the links like Ballybunion and Royal County Down are of unsurpassed beauty and challenge. Whether golfers actually make the pilgrimage or arm-chair it, Where Golf Is Great is indispensable: the most luxurious, entertaining, informative, and exhaustive book on these most important destinations. Written by the bard of Scottish and Irish golf, it combines the most authoritative information with the most beautiful prose and the most stunning color photographs—an unsurpassed celebration of the places where golf is, indeed, great.Not only is the golf great, but so are the sights, the dining, the lodging—and it’s all here: the pub lunches and three-star dinners; the country-house hotels and full-service resorts. Jim Finegan’s singularly insightful advice includes the very best play-and-stay combinations for once-in-a-lifetime perfect golf days, in this once-in-a-lifetime perfect golf book.
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