A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERGlobe-trotting golfer Tom Coyne has finally come home. And he’s ready to play all of it.After playing hundreds of courses overseas in the birthplace of golf,​ Coyne, the bestselling author ofA Course Called IrelandandA Course Called Scotland, returns to his own birthplace and delivers a “heartfelt, rollicking ode to golf…[as he] describes playing golf in every state of the union, including Alaska: 295 courses, 5,182 holes, 1.7 million total yards” (TheWall Street Journal).In the span of one unforgettable year, Coyne crisscrosses the country in search of its greatest golf experience, playing every course to ever host a US Open, along with more than two hundred hidden gems and heavyweights, visiting all fifty states to find a better understanding of his home country and countrymen.Coyne’s journey begins where the US Open and US Amateur got their start, historic Newport Country Club in Rhode Island. As he travels from the oldest and most elite of links to the newes