Brassies, Mashies, and Bootleg Scotch
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-3642-4 (ISBN)
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 |
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