Does anyone know the best place to go to Scotland to get a real sense of history, the earth and the people – not golf.
If you have time there are many places to visit in Scotland: Edinburgh – Glasgow's history – for shopping and architecture Highlands – to admire the scenery and tranquility (and whiskey) Islands – to beauty (really awesome!) (and whiskey) Oban – a city spa Regal Ben Nevis – To climb the highest mountain in the UK
Scotland Homecoming 2009
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The Seventh at St. Andrews: How Scotsman David McLay Kidd and His Ragtag Band Built the First New Course onGolf’s Holy Soil in Nearly a Century $5.20 An acclaimed Scottish golf course architect who had to go to America to make his name lands the most coveted commission in all of golf: to design the first new course in almost a century for the town of St. Andrews, the games ancestral home. David McLay Kidd became a wunderkind golf course architect before he was thirty years old, thanks to his universally lauded design at Bandon Dunes on the O… |
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Duel in the Sun: Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus in the Battle of Turnberry $4.00 The British Open, or the Open Championship as it’s known outside the United States, is believed to be the most challenging tournament in professional golf. There was no greater Open than in 1977 at Turnberry on Scotland’s southwest coast, when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus battled over the last thirty-six holes with Watson winning with a closing birdie. Drawing on interviews with participants, cadd… |
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A Swing Through Time: Golf in Scotland 1457-1744 $12.60 *A tour of the world’s most internationally popular game, once outlawed *From original written documents and artwork at the National Library of Scotland This is an expertly guided tour through the earliest written records of golf that sheds light on its origins, techniques and equipment as well as the social standing of the game as it developed from an outlawed activity (it was banne… |
