“Walking across the face of Ireland with golf clubs, golf shoes, a stout supply of golf balls, and a change of underwear in tow, step after sometimes painful step over a period of four months is so daunting a prospect that that only thing which could possibly justify it is this triumphant book.  A Course Called Ireland is knowing, warm, irreverent, funny, profound, compulsively readable, and, rarest of all, original—a book that seeks out and incisively pins down the character and fabric of Ireland today.”

—James W. Finegan, author of Where Golf is Great

“Tom Coyne’s purely delightful adventure reminds us of why we love this game, with all its quirks, characters, unexpected bends in the road, and small  epiphanies. I thoroughly commend this bittersweet yeoman’s tale to any fellow who simply feels the urge to play his way over the horizon.”

—James Dodson, author of Final Rounds

"This is the ode to Ireland James Joyce would have written if Joyce had been a compulsive golfer, really funny, and had Tom Coyne's legs. A Course Called Ireland makes you want to bag the mortgage and hit the road, a sack on your back. Coyne’s book is an adventure, a pleasure, and a dream.”

—Michael Bamberger, author of To the Linksland