Seventh at St. Andrews

"Designing the first golf course at Bandon Dunes in Oregon at the age of twenty-seven brought David McLay Kidd worldwide acclaim and commissions to create exclusive private clubs around the globe. But when it was announced that the town of St. Andrews - the Home of Golf - planned to build its first public championship course since 1914, the young Scot would have to scratch and claw to earn the right. Kidd prevailed and assembled a dream team that fashioned the most anticipated new course in golf history. Behind the scenes, personality clashes, pint-fueled tirades, creative conflicts, and bureaucratic red tape combined to make the experience at once maddening yet unforgettable." "Author Scott Gummer chronicles the days in the dirt and the nights in the pubs, with exclusive access to David Kidd and unprecedented cooperation from the St. Andrews Links Trust. The Seventh at St. Andrews is a process story of how a band of diverse artists came together on a derelict potato farm and unearthed a field of golfing dreams. This, despite never-ending obstacles that ran the gamut from having to hide a massive sewage plant to finding buried treasure to creating a right-of-way for cows to enduring life-threatening medical emergencies to surviving the circus that is The Open Championship." "The adventure comes to life in unexpected and vivid detail through the eyes of a rich cast of characters: Kidd, the hard-driven, sharp-tongued taskmaster whose name and neck are on the line; the cutup father he longs to please; Kidd's enigmatic clients; his relentless right-hand man; and the motley crew led by a hardscrabble "Da Vinci with a dozer."" "A breathtaking portrait of passion and vision against the longest of odds, The Seventh at St. Andrews is golf history in the making."--BOOK JACKET.Gummer, Scott is the author of 'Seventh at St. Andrews ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781592403226 and ISBN 1592403220.