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Title: A New Book - "Links to St. Andrews - Love Letters To The Home Of Golf"
Post by: David_Tepper on July 24, 2015, 10:19:10 AM
Highly recommended -

http://www.linkstostandrews.com
Title: Re: A New Book - "Links to St. Andrews - Love Letters To The Home Of Golf"
Post by: Ruediger Meyer on July 24, 2015, 06:56:41 PM
Looks like an awesome book, thanks for the link. If only the shipping to Europe wasn't $166...
Title: Re: A New Book - "Links to St. Andrews - Love Letters To The Home Of Golf"
Post by: David_Tepper on July 24, 2015, 08:04:05 PM
Ruediger -

I believe copies of the book were available in St. Andrews last week during the Open. Let me see if I can find the name of a bookshop there that might have it for sale. I imagine the postage to ship from Scotland is a lot less than from the U.S.

Check with Topping and Company Booksellers, 7 Greyfriars Garden, St. Andrews. Phone (01334) 585111

standrews@toppingbooks.co.uk

DT
Title: Re: A New Book - "Links to St. Andrews - Love Letters To The Home Of Golf"
Post by: Bill Gayne on July 24, 2015, 09:42:08 PM
Ruediger -

I believe copies of the book were available in St. Andrews last week during the Open. Let me see if I can find the name of a bookshop there that might have it for sale. I imagine the postage to ship from Scotland is a lot less than from the U.S.

Check with Topping and Company Booksellers, 7 Greyfriars Garden, St. Andrews. Phone (01334) 585111

standrews@toppingbooks.co.uk

DT


It was for sale at the Open last week. I saw it in several shops around the road hole and the shops across from the Dunvegan. I'm pretty sure Waterstone also had copies in stock. There were several copies of Scott Macpherson's royal golf club book for sale and Waterstone had signed copies.
Title: Re: A New Book - "Links to St. Andrews - Love Letters To The Home Of Golf"
Post by: David_Tepper on October 01, 2015, 01:23:37 PM
Geoff Shackelford and Josh Evenson had a nice discussion yesterday on the Golf Channel about the evolution golf art:

http://www.golfchannel.com/media/evolution-golf-art/
Title: Re: A New Book - "Links to St. Andrews - Love Letters To The Home Of Golf"
Post by: Dan Kelly on October 01, 2015, 01:40:14 PM
A $150 book about St. Andrews, Scotland, from a publisher in Minot, North Dakota.


What a world we live in!
Title: Re: A New Book - "Links to St. Andrews - Love Letters To The Home Of Golf"
Post by: Mark Pritchett on October 01, 2015, 02:21:58 PM
Minot is the hometown of the author. 
Title: Re: A New Book - "Links to St. Andrews - Love Letters To The Home Of Golf"
Post by: Dan Kelly on October 01, 2015, 02:24:09 PM
Minot is the hometown of the author.


As I said: What a world we live in!
Title: Re: A New Book - "Links to St. Andrews - Love Letters To The Home Of Golf"
Post by: Mark Pritchett on October 01, 2015, 02:31:53 PM
Minot is the hometown of the author.


As I said: What a world we live in!


Absolutely, just giving the treehouse a little FYI. 
Title: Re: A New Book - "Links to St. Andrews - Love Letters To The Home Of Golf"
Post by: Kalen Braley on October 01, 2015, 03:07:32 PM
Cmon,
 
Its not all that unprecedented.  Chef Gordon Ramsey, who hails from the UK, (which everyone tells me to avoid the local fare should I ever visit there)...comes to America and shows everyone how to cook.
 
What a world we live in indeed.
Title: Re: A New Book - "Links to St. Andrews - Love Letters To The Home Of Golf"
Post by: Colin Macqueen on October 02, 2015, 01:18:25 PM
Kalen, I wonder if he will pass on his greatest trait which is to swear, curse, blaspheme and generally spoutinvective at evry opportunity! I have never eaten at any of his establishments because of his ghastly swearing at all and sundry in his kitchens!
Cheers Colin
Title: Re: A New Book - "Links to St. Andrews - Love Letters To The Home Of Golf"
Post by: Kalen Braley on October 02, 2015, 03:24:01 PM
Kalen, I wonder if he will pass on his greatest trait which is to swear, curse, blaspheme and generally spoutinvective at evry opportunity! I have never eaten at any of his establishments because of his ghastly swearing at all and sundry in his kitchens!
Cheers Colin

I suspect he just does that to pull in the ratings.  Kinda like the old saying....no one goes bankrupt marketing/pandering to the lowest common demonitor in our society.
 
That being said, I too think he's a jackass, but his food looks damn good.  If he's got 16 Michelin stars, he must be doing something right I suppose.....