The Seventh at St. Andrews

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A boy with a bulldozer and a big idea — on golf’s most sacred ground. St Andrews is the home of golf — and for nearly a hundred years, nobody built a new course there. Then the town took a gamble on an unknown young Scotsman: David McLay Kidd. In The Seventh at St. Andrews, Scott Gummer tells the gripping inside story of how Kidd and his ragtag crew carved the Castle Course out of cliffs above the North Sea.

Gummer was there for it all: the days in the dirt, the nights in the pubs, the storms, the setbacks, and the sheer audacity of the undertaking. Before he was thirty, Kidd had become a wunderkind of golf course architecture — and this book captures the moment an unlikely hero changed the face of the game’s holiest soil.

Vivid, funny, and full of heart, this is about far more than golf: ambition, community, and what happens when a small Scottish town bets on a dreamer. A must-read for golfers and dreamers alike.

Building the first new course on golf’s holy soil in a century

St Andrews is the home of golf — and for nearly a hundred years, nobody built a new course there. Then the town took a gamble on an unknown young Scotsman: David McLay Kidd. In The Seventh at St. Andrews, Scott Gummer tells the gripping inside story of how Kidd and his ragtag crew of labourers, dreamers, and locals carved the Castle Course out of cliffs above the North Sea.

Gummer was there for it all: the days in the dirt, the nights in the pubs, the storms, the setbacks, and the sheer audacity of the undertaking. Before he was thirty, Kidd had become a wunderkind of golf course architecture — and this book captures the moment a boy with a bulldozer and a big idea changed the face of the game’s most sacred ground.

Vivid, funny, and full of heart, this is a story about far more than golf: it is about ambition, community, and what happens when a small Scottish town bets on an unlikely hero. A must-read for golfers and dreamers alike.

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