What books are you reading these days?

thecraw said:
Not sure what GC's are in the book but I've had the pleasure on

Millport
Arran
Rothesay
Mull
Skye
Islay

I will make it to Askernish in the next year or two. Maybe see if a few Gm'ers are up for a trip!
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I did get the ferry once to play on a work's outing but I'm fairly sure it was Cowal so not an island!

Will definitely be taking my clubs on the next surf trip to Tiree or Harris!

So the islands in the book are:

Bute
Skye
Harris (Stunning location at Scarista - also my favourite place to surf in Scotland!)
North Uist
Benbecula
South Uist
Barra
Arran
Tiree
Iona
Mull
Seil
Moncreiffe Island (that's in Perth BTW - King James VI GC)
Whalsay (Shetland)
Mainland Shetland
Orkney
Colonsay
Islay
 
Missing out Millport is look going out with your zip down. Not buying it now!

:smirk:
 
How Soon Is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks Who Made Independent Music 1975-2005.

Pages and pages about independent music, bloody marvellous. :)
 
FairwayDodger said:
Not sure if I've actually golfed on any of the islands.... We're usually trying to go surfing. I love Tiree for that but don't think I even knew there was a golf course there.
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As is the case with everything about Tiree - it's not your normal track and must be pretty unique amongst golf courses (in the world maybe?). Most of it is almost absolutely dead flat and not only are there no water hazards to contend with - there is not a single tree or bush (could just about be said about the island as a whole). The main hazard you have to contend with are the sheep, the cattle - and their cach (yes the Scots gaelic word is from where the word many of us use derives from).

The first tee is a few hundred yards from the sea on the island's southern shore and one of the greens is deep in the sand dunes on the island's northern shore.

View from the 1st tee :-)

http://www.vaulgolfclub.org/1st-an-toiseach.html

http://www.vaulgolfclub.org/
 
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Thanks you to those who mentioned My Baby Got The Yips. Bought it for the princely sum of £1.98 on Amazon and just read the first 8 pages and hooked - very funny. This snow means I'll get plenty of time to read it this week :cheers:
 
I bought "Education Of A Golfer" by Sam Snead for £1.13 a few weeks ago (Amazon Kindle store) and was bored last night so started reading it.

It's not written particularly elegantly, but I'm finding it fascinating learning about how he started, got his lucky breaks, and how hard it was to be a pro back when he first went on the tour.

It's a bit difficult in places to read fluently because you sometimes have to translate his (what's the politically correct term for hillbilly?) way of talking into something more coherent in your head, but that just adds to getting to know what he was all about.

Also, some of the stories of distance would be right at home on golfwrx, but I think we have to take his word for it. What he was doing with the old equipment (and sometimes clubs that he'd made or had to glue back together) is nothing short of astonishing.

I doubt I'm even a third of the way through it yet, but highly recommended so far.
 
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know the autobigraphy of Ranulph Fiennes.

Title seems to say it all. Mad as a hatter or someone with a death wish?
Did not envey him being a pretty boy at Eton though

Finally finished Hank Haney's book on Tigger, god it was boring.
 
Finished My Baby got the Yips in 2 days and now well into Bring Me The Head of Sergio Garcia. Not as funny or easy a read but enjoying it for sure.
 
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