Description
Product ID: | 9781848891982 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | IE |
Title: | Driving the Green |
Authors: | Author: Kevin Markham |
Page Count: | 240 |
Subjects: | Golf, Golf, Travel writing, Travel writing, Ireland |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Mark Twain had it all wrong: golf is not a good walk spoiled, golf is a journey. When Ireland provides the map it becomes an 11,000km odyssey for one man in a camper van. Ireland's beauty shines through but the people encountered along the way, the golf clubs visited and the idiosyncrasies of a camper van form the fairways on which this story plays Mark Twain had it all wrong: golf is not a good walk spoiled, golf is a journey. And when Ireland provides the map it becomes an 11,000km odyssey for one man in a camper van. Kevin plays every 18-hole golf course in Ireland in all kinds of weather and with all kinds of golfers. He deals with a leaky roof, potholes, born-again Christians and even an Irish mammy. Ireland''s beauty shines through but the people encountered along the way, the golf clubs visited and the idiosyncrasies of a twenty-year-old camper van form the fairways on which this story plays. From tee-off to putting the final hole, this is a true Irish golfing adventure. |
Imprint Name: | The Collins Press |
Publisher Name: | Gill |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2014-05-15 |