November 3rd Photograph Flooding Scotland

November 3rd photograph of flooding on the golf course at Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. Golf Scotland.


November 3rd photograph of flooding on the golf course at Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland.


November 3rd photograph of flooding on the golf course at Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland.

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This story about golf takes place in 16th Century Scotland and is inspired by the earliest historical records about "the greatest game". In it Ian MacPherson, a dirt poor farmer and so-so golfer, decides he must win his town's annual golfing tournament or face financial ruin. Galbraith, the Scottish Laird who rules the area, has financial problems of his own and also has designs on the tournament. He hires a golfing "ringer" from Edinburgh, Black Bart, to try and steal the tournament from the locals. Along with fascinating descriptions about early golf, there is plenty of earthy humor, cruel deception and local Scottish color. The author is a descendant of the MacPherson clan and swears at least some of what happens is fact, passed down to him from family stories. The Secret History of Golf in Scotland.

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