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a course called ireland a long walk in search of a country a pint and the next tee
an epic celtic sojourn in search of ancestors nostalgia and the worlds greatest round of golf br in his thirties married and staring down impending fatherhood tom coyne was well familiar with the last refuge of the adult male the golfing trip . intent on designing a golf trip to end all others coyne looked to ireland the place where his father had taught him to love the game years before . as he studied a map of the island and plotted his itinerary it dawned on coyne that ireland was ringed with golf holes . the country began to look like one giant round of golf so coyne packed up his clubs and set off to play all of it . and since irish golfers didnt take golf carts neither would he . he would walk the entire way . br a course called ireland is the story of a walking averse golfer who treks his way around an entire country spending sixteen weeks playing every seaside hole in ireland and often battling through all four seasons in one irish afternoon . coyne plays everything from the top ranked links in the world to nine hole courses crowded with livestock . along the way he searches out his familys roots discovers that a once poor country has been transformed by an economic boom and finds that the only thing tougher to escape than irish sand traps are irish pubs . by turns hilarious and poetic a course called ireland is a magnificent tour of a vibrant land and a paean to the worlds greatest game . br
hardcover gotham books 2009 isbn13 9781592404247 isbn10 1592404243
abridged n isbn 13 9781592404247 number in series 1 number of pages 311 publisher penguin group usa release date 1235001600000