A Course Called Scotland Quotes

“I too often took golf’s capriciousness as its most maddening vice, but if I adjusted my stance and looked from another angle, its fickleness was the game’s greatest gift.”
― Tom Coyne, A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game

“I want to believe all of that, just as I want to believe that one morning in the ninth century a Scottish king looked up and saw St. Andrew’s diagonal cross in the sky above—white clouds against a blue sky—and took it as a sign to march outnumbered against the Angles. His vision and victory gave birth to the Scottish flag—white × against a blue backdrop—and is too good a story to not be true. And I want to believe that the patron saint of golfers did actually utter St. Andrews’ town motto as his final words, the Latin phrase now stitched into my putter cover and the only tattoo I might ever get: Dum Spiro Spero. While I breathe, I hope.”
― Tom Coyne, A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game

“Forgan’s”
― Tom Coyne, A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game