
An American Caddie in St. Andrews
Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course
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Narrated by:
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Oliver Horovitz
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By:
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Oliver Horovitz
In the middle of Oliver Horovitz's high school graduation ceremony, his cell phone rang: It was Harvard. He'd been accepted, but he couldn't start for another year. A caddie since he was 12 and a golfer sporting a 1.8 handicap, Ollie decided to spend his gap year in St. Andrews, Scotland - a town with the UK's highest number of pubs per capita, and home to the Old Course, golf's most famous 18 holes - where he enrolls in the St. Andrews Links Trust caddie trainee program.
Initially, the notoriously brusque veteran caddies treat Ollie like a bug. But after a year of waking up at 4:30 a.m. every morning and looping two rounds a day, Ollie earns their grudging respect - only to have to pack up and leave for Harvard.
There, Ollie's new classmates are the sons of Albania's UN ambassador, the owner of Heineken, and the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Surrounded by sixth-generation legacies, he feels like a fish out of water all over again and can't wait to get back to St. Andrews. Even after graduation, when his college friends rush to Wall Street, Horovitz continues to return each summer to caddie on the Old Course.
A hilarious, irresistible, behind-the-scenes peek at the world's most celebrated golf course - and its equally famous caddie shack - An American Caddie in St. Andrews is certain to not only entertain golfers and fans of St. Andrews but also anyone who dares to remember stumbling into adulthood and finding one's place in the world.
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hilarious!
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Golf to the max.
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Great read and listen
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Well written and narrated
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Nicely done
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Loved loved this audible
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fantastically narrated by the author.
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I bought it to learn more about the Old Course, but got a lot more out of it than that. It's the inside view of the things that go on at the Old Course. It's life in Scotland. It's golf. It's being young. It's a lot of things. Oliver is a very good writer and does a great job reading his own work. He is mature beyond his years and his coming of age story was very interesting.
More than a golf book
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A must for golf enthusiasts
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Very entertaining
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