If you search for Golf on Amazon, you’ll find 60,000+ books to choose from. And the one that’s currently ranked the second best-seller among those 60,000+ plus is called “A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course.” The author of that book is a St. Joe’s professor named Tom Coyne.
Coyne’s latest is the third in a trilogy that began with “A Course Called Ireland,” published in 2009. That was followed by “A Course Called Scotland,” in 2018.
Matt Chominski, in FairwayPhilosophy.com, writes –
Tom Coyne’s new A Course Called America is brimming with the joy of discovery and the gratitude of homecoming. His past trans-Atlantic golf adventures are well appreciated by the American reader eager to experience—even vicariously—the purity of golf’s home and the links of the old sod. But, to open the cover of this newest volume, one must wonder if our native land has anything of lasting significance to offer. We might ask if it’s worth stepping out to traipse about America’s far-flung and homegrown fairways. Well, as we find, it is worth setting out, and setting out very far, so that we can come home, and return with thanksgiving.
When Coyne isn’t spending a ridiculous amount of time visiting golf courses around the world, he can be found near 54th and City Line teaching “Writing Studies” at St. Joe’s. According to RatemyProfessor.com, his students give him pretty good grades.