AN AMERICAN HACKER IN THE HIGHLANDS:: A GOLFER’S JOURNEY IN SCOTLAND’S REMOTE NORTH — NINE COURSES, EIGHT DAYS, ZERO CROWDS (American Hacker Series)
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AN AMERICAN HACKER IN THE HIGHLANDS:: A GOLFER’S JOURNEY IN SCOTLAND’S REMOTE NORTH — NINE COURSES, EIGHT DAYS, ZERO CROWDS (American Hacker Series)
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$20.99
Regular price $25.99
An American Hacker in the Highlands follows an everyday golfer on an unlikely journey to the far northern edge of Scotland.
After walking away from the game for thirty-eight years, Tim H. Blessing returned to golf only to discover that he was, in his own words, a “complete and utter hacker.” With a 26 handicap and no illusions of grandeur, he set out not for famous resort courses, but for the remote, wind-battered links that rarely appear in glossy magazines or tourist brochures.
Over nine courses in eight days, Blessing drives through empty roads under Highland moons, loses golf balls to unseen winds, and discovers that the game looks very different when played at the margins of the map. These are courses shaped by weather, history, sheep, stubborn locals, and the kind of solitude modern golf has almost forgotten.
Part travelogue, part golf memoir, and part meditation on humility, An American Hacker in the Highlands celebrates the overlooked courses that endure without hype—and the everyday golfers who love them.
This is not a book about playing like a professional.
It is a book about playing regardless.
After walking away from the game for thirty-eight years, Tim H. Blessing returned to golf only to discover that he was, in his own words, a “complete and utter hacker.” With a 26 handicap and no illusions of grandeur, he set out not for famous resort courses, but for the remote, wind-battered links that rarely appear in glossy magazines or tourist brochures.
Over nine courses in eight days, Blessing drives through empty roads under Highland moons, loses golf balls to unseen winds, and discovers that the game looks very different when played at the margins of the map. These are courses shaped by weather, history, sheep, stubborn locals, and the kind of solitude modern golf has almost forgotten.
Part travelogue, part golf memoir, and part meditation on humility, An American Hacker in the Highlands celebrates the overlooked courses that endure without hype—and the everyday golfers who love them.
This is not a book about playing like a professional.
It is a book about playing regardless.