The Seventh at St. Andrews Paperback - 2008

by Gummer, Scott

An acclaimed Scottish golf course architect who had to go to America to make hisname lands the most coveted commission in all of golf: to design the first new coursein almost a century for the town of St. Andrews, the game's ancestral home.

David McLay Kidd became a wunderkind golf coursearchitect before he was thirty years old, thanks to hisuniversally lauded design at Bandon Dunes on the Oregoncoast. When the town of St. Andrews announced in 2001that a new championship course was in the works thetown's first since 1914 Kidd fought off all comersand earned the right to make golf history. Author ScottGummer was there to chronicle the days in the dirt andthe nights in the pubs, the politics and histrionics, allwith exclusive access to David Kidd, his team, and the St.Andrews Links Trust.

Unfolding in arresting you-are-there scenes, The Seventh atSt. Andrews follows the young master at work as Kidd, withhis sharp tongue, leads his accomplices in transforming aplot of flat, uninspiring farmland smack in the middleof which sits the town's sewage plant into a rollickinggolfing adventure and the most anticipated golf courseopening in a generation.