Brassies, Mashies, and Bootleg Scotch

Growing Up on America's First Heroic Golf Course

Bill Kilpatrick (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2011
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-3642-4 (ISBN)

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A hundred years or so ago, kids growing up in St. Andrews, Scotland, kids like Bill Kilpatrick's father, took to golf as naturally as to breathing. Accordingly, the prevailing opinion was that any layabout could play golf, whereas a greenkeeper was someone to be reckoned with. And a greenkeeper (a term much preferred to "golf course superintendent") was what Kilpatrick's father became. Kilpatrick's memoir of growing up on golf courses is at once a window on another time—when golf was played mainly with balata balls, hickory shafts, and handmade spoons, mashies, and cleeks—and a ground-level view of what maintaining a golf course meant when artisanship, instinct, and experience carried the day.
A charming narrative of a boy's relationship with his adored, occasionally impatient, and always forgiving father, Brassies, Mashies, and Bootleg Scotch takes us to some of the most notable golf clubs in America and introduces us to a delightful cast of characters, from giants of golf history to behind-the-scenes eccentrics to walk-on stars like New York Giants pitcher Hal Schumacher. Readers get a rare glimpse of a vanished world through Kilpatrick's recollections of the daily routines of his father as a dedicated greenkeeper and of his own experiences as a caddy on the courses that were his family's way of life.

Bill Kilpatrick has written articles for magazines such as Parade, Popular Mechanics, Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, Field & Stream, Esquire, Fly Fishing, and True. Before "retiring" he was a general features writer, columnist, and golf writer for the Fort Myers News-Press.

Introduction

1. The Founding Father, Part I

2. Good-bye, Charlie

3. Weed No More

4. Mixing It Up

5. A Badge of Honor

6. The Grass Was Greener

7. Boy Explorer

8. The Way It Was, Part I

9. Off Limits

10. An Authentic Master

11. A Picasso I Never Was

12. The Really Hard Stuff

13. Tote That Bag, Watch That Ball

14. All on a Golden Afternoon

15. All the Jolly Fellows

16. Having a Ball

17. The Way It Was, Part II

18. Landmarks

19. Never Again

20. The Founding Father, Part II

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Zusatzinfo	8 photographs
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 178 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sport ► Ballsport ► Golf
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8032-3642-5 / 0803236425
ISBN-13	978-0-8032-3642-4 / 9780803236424
Zustand	Neuware