Golf Books
Description
Author: Morecroft, Nigel Edward
Features:
- St Andrews: Camelot of Golf
- Product type: ABIS BOOK
Binding: paperback
Number Of Pages: 256
Release Date: 01-02-2023
Details: This book, about a place and a sport – St Andrews and golf – explains how the two are closely interconnected and that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. According to the University’s Emeritus Professor of English, Robert Crawford, ‘St Andrews is an almost impossible place. Its assets are unique and improbable’.1 The appeal of the town is unquestioned: this tiny outpost in remote north-east Fife has attracted pilgrims ever since the building of its huge cathedral over 1,000 years ago: then, religious worshippers visited what was one of the holiest sites in Europe; in the twenty-first century, golfers pay homage at the shrine of golf – often called golf ’s ‘Mecca’. It resembles a mythical place, somewhere from an imaginary ancient world, teetering on the edge of the North Sea with its huge beaches, cliffs, castle, ruined cathedral and medieval church spires.
The town enchants, too, in the way that the ancient golf course comes right into the town, with its unrivalled golfing amphitheatre around the eighteenth hole. Every golfer is excited when starting in front of the most famous building in world sport, the Royal and Ancient Clubhouse, or inspired when finishing on the Swilcan Bridge, over which has passed just about every renowned golfer of the modern era. The Australian Championship-winning golfer Geoff Ogilvy spoke for many when he said: ‘I fell in love with the town before I fell in love with the golf course. At other great golf courses in the world, they might have a nice clubhouse but then you leave. Here at St Andrews, it’s the town first, and then the course. You leave this course and you walk straight into this magical place’.2
This combination of the mythical and the magical led to the title for this book, St Andrews: Camelot of Golf. The legendary Camelot was an enlightened enclave in which King Arthur, his court and his Knights of the Round Table fought for a greater good as the world changed. My concept for the book draws a parallel between Camelot’s guiding principles and those that evolved at St Andrews with regard to golf: a golfing ethos based on timeless values radiated from this Home of Golf to shape the sport, players and clubs the world over.
EAN: 9781739179601
Package Dimensions: 10.0 x 8.0 x 0.6 inches
Languages: English