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Season in Dornoch, A Exo [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by RUBENSTEIN (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster; illustrated edition edition (26 Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743223365
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743223362
  • Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.3 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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James Dodson author of "Final Rounds"The wee sea-blown village of Dornoch is a special, if somewhat cloistered, holy place of golf that is known by many but probably truly understood by only a few. With "A Season in Dornoch," Lorne Rubenstein, one of golf's gifted modern writers, has done every fan of the game a great and entertaining service by taking us with him on a magical mystery tour of Royal Dornoch's surprising history and rich social lore, revealing far more than the area's soulful landscape and unforgettable local characters. Part sporting travelogue, part memoir of a summer magnificently spent, this tale of discovery will linger in the mind of any lover of the auld sod long after it's finished -- taken down and savored, winter after winter (at least by me) for years to come.

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A noted golf writer describes his summer among the colorful inhabitants of Dornoch, a tiny village in northern Scotland that is home to the renowned Royal Dornoch golf course.

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5.0 out of 5 stars happy reading, 6 Jan 2003
at first I wondered if I had made a good buy. Quickly settled in to the book.full of charm and genuine warmth and kindness for the town, the golf course and its surrounds.Just as the author showed great sadness in leaving Dornoch, I also had equal sadness when the book came to a close. A great book for all true lovers of the game and who realise there is more to it than just your score. If nothing else, it will surely make you want to visit Dornoch, or, as in my case revisit.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Golfing Heaven, 16 Mar 2009
By Peter Jackson (Sheffield UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands (Mainstream sport) (Paperback)
This book is really for people who have been to Dornoch and enjoyed the area and the golf course. For me it brought back many memories of this delightful place which goes back to my first visit in 1957 at the age of 9. I learnt to drive on the old grass airstrip and pestered my parents to take me down there every day! I played the Stuie as a youngster and then the main course as I grew up and my golf improved!
Clearly Lorne fell in love with the place as we all did - as a family - and whilst it took him some 30 years to return we went back every year until the late 1970's!
I still go back and hanker to be there - it is a place of great solitude and peace. The golf is superb, the beach and dunes are quite beautiful and the people lovely. In this modern world the pace still seems to hark back to earlier times and I can think of no better place to be!
Lorne has captured all of this but only someone who has yet to go, will know if it inspires them as much as it did me.
The book is worth the read but the place truly deserves a visit.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Enough to make you want to take a 'season' in Dornoch yourself!, 28 Dec 2008
This review is from: A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands (Mainstream sport) (Paperback)
This is a good book. I will stress its not at all by Sean Connery, he does write an introduction but is not otherwise involved in the book. Rubenstein is in the fortunate position to be able to take a sojourn from his day job but write a book about it and thus cover his lack of earnings, I'm sure we would all love to do a similar thing.

Rubenstein writes well about the clearances, no doubt it is a potted history rather than a well researched one, nonetheless he conveys the passing of a way of life and the injustices suffered by those who were moved on. His interviews with the local Dornoch folk are somewhat patronising though and takeaway from the book - at the end of the day, Rubenstein is a guest yet some of his comments on people are border line offensive.

As a hacker, Rubenstein tries his best to convince us that golf is a game best enjoyed without worrying about score. Whilst true to a degree, most golfers know that score is an integral part of the game and always will be. There are many 'odd sorts' who head out on courses around the world eschewing company insisting instead that they just prefer the challenge from 'old man par'. In truth though, these are the guys who are dropping a second ball every time its not quite right and couldn't shoot a score if their life depended on it.

So whilst this book is an enjoyable read, it is not as good as Michael Bamberger's 'To the Linksland' or Donnegan's '4-iron in the soul'.
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