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Two Years in St. Andrews
- Two Years at Home on the Old Course
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Summary
The Old Course at St. Andrews is to golfers what St. Peter's is to Catholics or the Western Wall is to Jews: hallowed ground, the course every golfer longs to play - and master. In 1983 George Peper was playing the Old Course when he hit a slice so hideous that he never found the ball. But in looking for it, he came across a For Sale sign on a stone town house alongside the famed eighteenth hole. Two months later he and his wife, Libby, became the proud owners of 9A Gibson Place.
In 2003 Peper retired after twenty-five years as the editor in chief of Golf magazine. With the younger of their two sons off to college, the Pepers decided to sell their house in the United States and relocate temporarily to the town house in St. Andrews. And so they left for the land of golf - and single malt scotch, haggis, bagpipes, television licenses, and accents thicker than a North Sea fog. While Libby struggled with renovating an apartment that for years had been rented to students at the local university, George began his quest to break par on the Old Course.
Their new neighbors were friendly, helpful, charmingly eccentric, and always serious about golf. In no time George was welcomed into the local golf crowd, joining the likes of Gordon Murray, the man who knows everyone; Sir Michael Bonallack, Britain's premier amateur golfer of the last century; and Wee Raymond Gatherum, a magnificent shotmaker whose diminutive stature belies his skills.For anyone who has ever dreamed of playing the Old Course - and what golfer hasn't? - this book is the next best thing. And for those who have had that privilege, Two Years in St. Andrews will revive old memories and confirm Bobby Jones's tribute, "If I were to set down to play on one golf course for the remainder of my life, I should choose the Old Course at St. Andrews."
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- m hickson
- 02-07-18
Great story, builds to a touching finale
Great narrative for anyone interested in golf, St Andrews and Britain as a travel destination. Some shocking accents as you'd expect but a lovely story full of interesting characters. Very enjoyable.
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- Tikkerberg
- 24-11-13
A must to all who play golf
What made the experience of listening to Two Years in St. Andrews the most enjoyable?
The story all in all, the stories you never find in history books, the way it opened the world of golf and took it back to the basics.
What did you like best about this story?
It is a homage to people who love the game, no matter of wealth or station in life. It really makes you believe that golf brings out the best in people - at least in most of the people.
What about Fleet Cooper’s performance did you like?
It felt like the author himself was talking.Fleet Cooper was not reading or acting, he was telling me his own story.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Golf the way it should be.
Any additional comments?
I found the book only a few days before my first visit to St Andrews and was listening it night and day, going back when I realised I had fallen asleep and carrying on again. Starting over again and again . It gave me such an insight into golf in Scotland and the links that when I played my rounds there, I fell in love with every club we visited. I knew Scotland very well aforehand but had never been to St Andrews, nor played links courses.This book is a must to everybody who wants to know where the game started. I had read many articles on St Andrews, but this was something else. When we walked on the Old Course on a sunday I lived myself some of the stories in the book, I was walking in a place I knew.
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- Mike Sandford
- 07-01-21
Great story... Shame about pronunciation
Knowing several people mentioned in this wonderful story, related to two of them. Just a shame the research had not been done by the narrator. A classic example Elie Golf Club is not Elly and many more names and places mispronounced. Am sure the author would not have made the same mistakes.
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- "haddockboy"
- 17-03-22
Wonderful .
A must read(listen) for any golfer . Would be absolute gibberish for any non golfer .
Some dodgy pronunciation from Fleet Cooper but that’s all part of the charm . Loved the idea of American golfers listening to this . A great introduction to St Andrews and Scotland .
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- Gary Tonge
- 22-02-21
Worth a listen
If you like golf and like StAndrews give it a try. My only criticism is there was too much non golf talk, but enough to give it. Try.
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- Graham Smith
- 22-05-21
Great story on the spirit of golf an St Andrews
The narration can be annoying at times. For a book based in Scotland it would have been good to have someone who could do a Scottish accent. Similarly, to have done some research into pronunciation of words rather than just reading.
Don’t let this put you off as it was a thoroughly enjoyable listen.
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- Gordon Johnston
- 24-03-21
Loved it
I listened to the book and found some of the pronunciation a bit awry but it took nothing away from the intensity of the storyline.
Being a golfer myself I can easily relate to a lot of the narrative.
I found the final chapter very heartfelt and emotional
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- Ian
- 07-09-16
Great story, shame about the accents!
An interesting account of adaptation to a new life. Not sure that a non-golfer would enjoy the read so much as a great deal of golf centric language is in evidence.
If it wasn't for the narrator's frankly awful attempts at Scottish and English accents, I would have enjoyed it a whole lot more!
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-01-18
Terriible
The narrator's voice was hard to relax with.
And the story just didn't suit I sent the book back pretty sharpish
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- James Wright
- 11-08-22
Great book, bad narration
I really enjoyed the content, but the narration really detracted from how much I enjoyed it. The attempts at the Scottish accent manifests as a terrible Irish accent, bizarrely sometimes with an Eastern European twang! For a book so centered on Scotland and it’s cultural icon of St Andrews I’m baffled as to why someone so utterly incapable of replicating anything close to the Scottish accent was chosen!
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