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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Brassies, Mashies, & Bootleg Scotch: Growing Up on America's First Heroic Golf Course

Brassies, Mashies, & Bootleg Scotch: Growing Up on America's First Heroic Golf Course

Kilpatrick, Bill, Jr.

Hardcover

Golf20th Century United States HistoryRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0803236425
ISBN13: 9780803236424
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Oct 1 2011
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.70 Depth: 7.10
Language: English
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.

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