‘A Course Called Ireland’ by Tom Coyne

Monday - Friday

12:30pm | 10:30pm REPEAT Starting on Thursday 31st August

The hysterical story bestseller 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 thirties, 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 has taught him to love the game years before. As he studied a map of the island and plotted his itinerary, it dawn 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.

Tom Coyne is an American writer, professor, and editor. Coyne has published five books, A Gentleman's Game (2002), Paper Tiger (2007), A Course Called Ireland (2009), A Course Called Scotland (2019), and A Course Called America (2021). A Gentleman's Game was adapted into a feature film starring Gary Sinise and Dylan Baker.

In January 2024, Coyne was appointed the editor of the golf quarterly The Golfer's Journal

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