Take a sneak peek inside Links to St Andrews: Love Letters to the Home of Golf. The 70-page digital sampler offers at least one essay or interview from each of the 320-page book’s seven major sections. You’ll get a feeling for the breadth of the book’s contents and contributors, the themes it covers, and — not least! — a tasty sampling of its rich and varied illustration, which ranges from commissioned drawings and paintings to archival imagery to new and freshly seen photography of the town of St Andrews and its beautiful Old Course.
PREVIEW THE BOOK SECTIONS BELOW:
Lasting Impressions
The Auld Grey Toon
Best Walks
Competing
Lives Linked To The Game
The Ladies
Links Across The Water
LASTING IMPRESSIONS
Arnold Palmer • Donning The Robe
A Conversation With Howard Giles
Doc Giffin • Right Place Right Time
Ken L. Mould • Arnie And Me
Gary Player • Never Ceasing To Be Amazed
A Conversation With Tom Watson
Tom Doak • A Summer At St Andrews
A Conversation With Jack Nicklaus
A Conversation With Sir Nick Faldo
Alex Holmes • How To Wear Plaid
Colin Sheehan • Memories Of St Andrews
Jim Nantz • The Poet At St Andrews
A Conversation With Rory Mcilroy
Joe Parent • Zen Golf On The Old Course
Taizo Kawata • Holy To My Eyes
Eric Anders Lang • The Thorned Rose
Lorne Rubenstein • Freelance Wandering
James Dodson • Opti The Mystic
Ed Gowan • The First-Time Lass
Ed Gowan • The Town Match
Derek Lane • What Our Thoughts Make It
Joseph Beditz • The Bridge
Ari Techner • A Vision Of Loveliness
A Conversation With Dominic Fairlie
Graylyn Loomis • Joy In The Game
Joshua Evenson • A Dream Four-Ball
Matthew Gibb • Three Times The Charm
Stephen Proctor • A Thirty-Year Pause
Peter E. Crabtree • Collecting Golf History
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Joshua C. F. Smith. Sunset, St Andrews. Oil, 2014.
THE AULD GREY TOON
Steve Melnyk • Ticket To Edinburgh
Horace G. Hutchinson • Pilgrim At The Shrine
Alex Holmes • Knickers To Nikes
Ian Syme • St Andrews To Me
Archie Bell • St Andrews
Kevin Cattanach • Town, Gown, Golf
James Bunch • A Day At The Town Match
David Scott • A Boy Of St Andrews
Ran Morrissett • A Family’s First Visit
Michael Bonallack • Through The Years
Duncan Melville • A Perfect Place For A Wedding
Patrick Leigh-Pemberton And Moritz Weisel
• Those Who Do Not Golf
Afeef Nessouli • I Walk Into A Party
James Nursey • The Jigger Challenge
Matt Wheeler • Magic Ticket
Andrew C. Mutch • A Love Affair
Jack And Sheena Willoughby • The Dunvegan
Sara Kate Gillingham • Dining After A Good Round
Photograph by Matthew Harris.
BEST WALKS
AS FRIENDS AND I USED TO SAY,
“NUMBER THREE IS NO GUARANTEE.
PLAY FOR FOUR AND DON’T ASK FOR MORE.”
— Matt Gibb, Freelance golf writer
Linda Hartough. Swilcan Bridge. Oil, 2005.
COMPETING
Marty Hackel • Advice
Gordon G. Simmonds
• The Walker Cup On The Old Course
A Conversation With Dick Siderowf
A Conversation With Jim Holtgrieve
Awk! • Joshua Evenson And Carol Haralson
Finlay Miller • Graeme Dawson
Joe Pinnington • Hoylake
David Rickman • Some Thoughts On The Rules
Fred Piscop • St Andrews As A Crossword Puzzle
Kenneth Reed. The R&A Club and 1st Tee. Watercolor, ca. 1998.
LIVES LINKED TO THE GAME
Robert Sidorsky • In Search Of Dick Burton
A Conversation With Marvin “Vinny” Giles
A Conversation With Tiger Woods
A Conversation With Robert Trent Jones
Mike Nuzzo • Limited Only By Imagination
Melvyn Morrow • The Nestor Of Golf
Gary Player • A Life In Golf
Mark Alexander • Chasing The Light
Jim Urbina • Searching For The Holy Grail
A Conversation With Pete Dye
A Conversation With Herb Kohler
Gil Hanse • Affairs Of The Heart
Scott Macpherson • The Soul Of St Andrews
Bobby Jones • Farewell
M. Mcstravick • Tom And Tommy Morris
Mike Keiser • Splendour In The Grass
A Conversation With David Mclay Kidd
Andrew C. Mutch • Lessons Of St Andrews
A Conversation With Walter Woods
Kris Shreiner • Apostle For Caddie Golf
John Boyne • Choosing The Life Of A Caddie
A Conversation With Greg Norman
A Conversation With Alastair Johnston
Neil Hampton • Memories Of Dornoch
A Conversation With Ben Crenshaw
A Conversation With Bill Coore
Euan Loudon • Working In The Home Of Golf
John Henderson • Caddie Tales
Linda Hartough • Painting St Andrews
Lee Wybranski • The Graphic Game: Early Posters
Hamish W. R. Steedman • Hickory History
James T. Bunch • What Can Be Said?
Mark Parsinen • A Debt To The Old Course
Matthew Harris • Cocktails Of Light
Michael Klein. Swilcan Bridge . Oil, 2015.
THE LADIES
Shona Malcolm • Sporting Women In Scotland
Eve Soulsby • Anecdotes Of The Old Course
A Conversation With Annika Sörenstam
Majorie Moncrieff • Two Of The Fair Ones
Eve Soulsby • If There Were No Golf In Heaven
Natasha Saunders • Our Bubble
Lois Evenson • Hole In One
Julia Berridge • No Cartwheels On The Old
Angela Bonallack • At Home Here
A Conversation With Lorena Ochoa
A Conversation With Judy Bell
A Conversation With Janette And Pamela Wright
Robert Frost • A Time To Talk