A Course Called Ireland
A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee
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Narrated by:
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Kyle Tait
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Written by:
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Tom Coyne
About this listen
The must-listen best seller about one man's epic Celtic sojourn in search of ancestors, nostalgia, and the world's greatest round of golf
By turns hilarious and poetic, A Course Called Ireland is a magnificent tour of a vibrant land and paean to the world's greatest game in the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods.
In his 30s, married, and staring down impending fatherhood, Tom Coyne was familiar with the last refuge of the adult male: the golfing trip. Intent on designing a golf trip to end all others, Coyne looked to Ireland, the place where his father had taught him to love the game years before. As he studied a map of the island and plotted his itinerary, it dawned on Coyne that Ireland was ringed with golf holes. The country began to look like one giant round of golf, so Coyne packed up his clubs and set off to play all of it-on foot.
A Course Called Ireland is the story of a walking-averse golfer who treks his way around an entire country, spending 16 weeks playing every seaside hole in Ireland. Along the way, he searches out his family's roots, discovers that a once-poor country has been transformed by an economic boom, and finds that the only thing tougher to escape than Irish sand traps are Irish pubs.
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What listeners say about A Course Called Ireland
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-04-03
Another gem for the golf obsessed
Listened to Paper Tiger and the three “A Course Called…” audiobooks. Tom often mentions the men who hear about his trips and wish they could be him. I’m one of those guys, and listening to these stories lets me live vicariously through him. Wishing I was the one travelling around a country, playing the game we all love so much.
If you too wish you could take a few months out of your life to golf pretty much every day, any of Tom’s books are worth your while.
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