{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F1aec228f-eeb2-4051-9ac7-1a04ead1141c","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"240 (18STRONG): Tom Coyne | Seeking Golf\u2019s Greatest Experiences","description":"Today I am especially excited to have on our special guest, Tom Coyne.\nTom is much more than a golf writer; yes, he\u2019s written multiple best-selling golf books and has many contributions to golf publications, but I consider Tom a Golf Adventurer.\nHe\u2019s a guy that loves the game so much and is willing to do the extremes when it comes to his journeys in golf and thanks to his willingness to do a deep dive into these crazy adventures, we all learn more about the heart, soul, and history of this game we love.\nIt wasn\u2019t until recently that I found Tom\u2019s work and came to find out that he is on a new journey across the States playing an insane amount of golf for his next book A Course Called America.\nIn this episode, we not only get into the details of this latest endeavor but also his previous books A Course Called Ireland and A Course Called Scotland, and the amazing insights he has gleaned into the heart and soul of the game and stories around the game of golf.\n\n\nAccess “How To Add 17 Yards In 17 Minutes” now\nDiscover The Fastest Way To Increase Your Club Head Speed…\nhttps://golftraining.18strong.com/17-yards-in-17-minutes?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=blog&utm_content=17lm (Click here to access your How-To guide)\n\n\nTom Coyne\u2019s Background\n\n* Tom is Senior Writer at https://www.golfersjournal.com/ (The Golfer\u2019s Journal), and has written for Golf Magazine, Golfweek, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. He is also a host and writer for the travel television series, \u201cGolfing the World.\u201d\n* Tom earned an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Notre Dame, where he won the William Mitchell Award for distinguished achievement.\n* Tom Coyne is the author of the novel https://www.amazon.com/Gentlemans-Game-Novel-Tom-Coyne/dp/080213890X (A Gentleman\u2019s Game), which was named one of the best 25 sports books of all time by The Philadelphia Daily News, https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Tiger-Obsessed-Golfers-Quest/dp/1592402992/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_2?_encoding=UTF8andpsc=1andrefRID=PDWZP55TQTJPYDGYG3HX (Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer\u2019s Quest to Play with the Pros) was released June 2006, and was an editor\u2019s pick in Esquire Magazine and USA Today, and a summer reading selection in The New York Times, as well as https://www.amazon.com/Course-Called-Ireland-Search-Country/dp/1592405282/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8andpd_rd_i=1592405282andpd_rd_r=8a3d189d-0482-11e9-b744-c97d5c894571andpd_rd_w=71TCzandpd_rd_wg=gBKgPandpf_rd_p=6725dbd6-9917-451d-beba-16af7874e407andpf_rd_r=ENNJYZTRH8B3QH9TD2K7andpsc=1andrefRID=ENNJYZTRH8B3QH9TD2K7 (A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee), was published by Gotham Books in February, 2009, and it chronicles his quest to walk and golf the whole of Ireland.\n* His anticipated follow-up to A Course Called Ireland was released by Simon and Schuster in 2018: https://www.google.com/search?q=a+course+called+scotland+simon+schusterandie=utf-8andoe=utf-8andclient=firefox-b (A Course Called Scotland )was an instant New York Times bestseller, and chronicles Tom\u2019s quest to play every links course in Scotland, searching the highlands for the secret to golf and a tee time in the oldest championship in sports.\n* He lives outside Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters, and he is an associate professor of English at https://www.sju.edu/ ( Joseph\u2019s University).\n\nHighlights from this Episode\n\n* How he got into golf writing, as he claims, accidentally from his background and education in fiction writing and how his history in caddying led to the creation of A Gentleman\u2019s Game.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/9a64654e-7f19-4b5f-b22f-e1eabb7f7a27/New-Podcast-Logo-3000x3000.png"}