A GOLFING BOOK AT BEDTIME ABOUT

A CLUB, A COURSE AND A VILLAGE

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
It's not something I'm proud of but the older I get the less I read books. Editing "Scottishgolfview.com" takes up a lot of my time and "... there are miles to go and promises to keep, ere I sleep."
What golf books I do read, are at my bedside. A chapter and I'm ready to sleep.
"Golf at the Back of Beyond" is to me a perfect book for bedtime. I can pick it up and cherrypick which chapter I'm going to read, because the sequence in which you read them does not matter.
Hugh Baillie deserves much credit for putting down on paper, before the memories are lost forever, a treasure trove of anecdotes and historical facts about a golf club that was founded in 1891.
Peter Thomson's foreword gets the book off to a cracking drive from the first tee. Not many forewords get you hooked on a book, but this one does.
Aside from the golf, I did not know that Brora was once known as "The Electric City." Power was first generated in Brora in 1903 and, 10 years later, the village became the first in the north of Scotland to have street lighting.
The electricity was harnessed to power the Sutherland Woollen Mills, the Brora coal mine and brickwords and Clynelish Distillery. The first three have gone ... but Brora and its golf club will go on for ever.
A great read ... even if, as I am, you do it with a chapter (or maybe more) a night before you put the light out.

Note from Brora Golf Club professional Brian Anderson:

The book is available via mail order from

Brian Anderson
PGA Professional
Brora Golf Club
Golf Road
Brora
KW96QS

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