An acclaimed Scottish golf course architect who had to go to America to make his name lands the most coveted commission in all of golf: to design the first new course in almost a century for the town of St. Andrews, the game’s ancestral home. David McLay Kidd became a wunderkind golf course architect before he was thirty years old, thanks to his universally lauded design at Bandon Dunes on the Oregon coast. When the town of St. Andrews announced in 2001 that a new championship course was in the works—the town’s first since 1914—Kidd fought off all comers and earned the right to make golf history. Author Scott Gummer was there to chronicle the days in the dirt and the nights in the pubs, the politics and histrionics, all with exclusive access to David Kidd, his team, and the St. Andrews Links Trust. Unfolding in arresting you-are-there scenes, The Seventh at St. Andrews follows the young master at work as Kidd, with his sharp tongue, leads his accomplices in transforming a plot of flat, uninspiring farmland—smack in the middle of which sits the town’s sewage plant—into a rollicking golfing adventure and the most anticipated golf course opening in a generation. Murphy’s Law seems to govern the process, however, as everything that can go wrong seemingly does: from epic wooly weather, to cattle grazing on the site, to vociferous opposition among the townsfolk, to bureaucrats so stuck in their ways they cannot be budged even with one of Kidd’s bulldozers. The story chronicles the decade-long journey from the first notion of a seventh course to its official opening. Kidd & Co. exceed everyone’s expectations by building a magnificent throwback course that looks to have been shaped by the wind and rain and nature rather than modern machinery. The Seventh at St. Andrews brings the underappreciated art of golf course design to life, and along the way profiles an unforgettable cast of characters that includes Kidd’s jovial father, a golf legend in his own right; Kidd’s taciturn right-hand man; and the roustabout Scottish shaper, the Da Vinci in a ’dozer who is the heart of Kidd’s crew.

The seventh at St. Andrews : how Scotsman David McLay Kidd and his ragtag band built the first new course on golf's holy soil in nearly a century

Gummer, Scott

Penguin Publishing Group

Avery

United States, United States of America

New York, NY, New York State, 2007

October 4, 2007

2008

subject: Kidd, David McLay,-1967-; Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St.Andrews-History; Golf course architects-Scotland-Biography; Golf courses-Design and construction-History-20th century

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topic: Kidd, David McLay,-1967-; Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St.Andrews-History; Golf course architects-Scotland-Biography; Golf courses-Design and construction-History-20th century

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Bookmarks:
1. (p1) Foreword
2. (p2) Preface
3. (p3) 1 Rumors
4. (p4) 2 The White Elephant
5. (p5) 3 Why You?
6. (p6) 4 Thank You for Coming
7. (p7) 5 The Links (Mis)Trust
8. (p8) 6 Gobsmacked
9. (p9) 7 Moo
10. (p10) 8 Red Tape
11. (p11) 9 Kimber
12. (p12) 10 Premature Evaluation
13. (p13) 11 McShane & Walsh
14. (p14) 12 In Reality
15. (p15) 13 Open Week
16. (p16) 14 Buried Treasure
17. (p17) 15 Icarus
18. (p18) 16 Batten Down the Hatches
19. (p19) 17 An Unexpected Loss
20. (p20) 18 Believe in Yourself, Buddy
21. (p21) 19 Back at the Rockpile
22. (p22) 20 Interlopers
23. (p23) 21 Love/Hate
24. (p24) 22 Beautiful Music
25. (p25) Postscript
26. (p26) Acknowledgments
27. (p27) Cast

theme: Kidd, David McLay,-1967-; Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St.Andrews-History; Golf course architects-Scotland-Biography; Golf courses-Design and construction-History-20th century

<b>An acclaimed Scottish golf course architect who had to go to America to make his name lands the most coveted commission in all of golf: to design the first new course in almost a century for the town of St. Andrews, the game's ancestral home</b>.
<p>David McLay Kidd became a wunderkind golf course architect before he was thirty years old, thanks to his universally lauded design at Bandon Dunes on the Oregon coast. When the town of St. Andrews announced in 2001 that a new championship course was in the works—the town's first since 1914—Kidd fought off all comers and earned the right to make golf history. Author Scott Gummer was there to chronicle the days in the dirt and the nights in the pubs, the politics and histrionics, all with exclusive access to David Kidd, his team, and the St. Andrews Links Trust.</p>
<p>Unfolding in arresting you-are-there scenes, <i>The Seventh at St. Andrews</i> follows the young master at work as Kidd, with his sharp tongue, leads his accomplices in transforming a plot of flat, uninspiring farmland—smack in the middle of which sits the town's sewage plant—into a rollicking golfing adventure and the most anticipated golf course opening in a generation.</p>

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