An American Caddie in St. Andrews: Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course

By Oliver Horovitz

Book Overview

A caddie since he was twelve and a golfer sporting a 1.8 handicap, Ollie decides to spend his gap year, pre Harvard, in St. Andrews: a town with the U.K.'s highest number of pubs per capita and home to the Old Course, golf's most famous eighteen holes, where he enrolls in the St. Andrews Links Trust caddie trainee program. Initially, the notoriously brusque veteran caddies treat Ollie like a pest. But after a year of waking up at 4:30 A.M. every morning and looping two rounds a day, Ollie earns their grudging respect. A charming coming-of-age memoir.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159240863X
• ISBN13: 9781592408634
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher