W. Eric Laing

I started playing golf as a youngster more than 35 years ago. In the early 1990s, though, I walked off the public course I normally played and didn't pick up a club for about five years. Why? Neither my temperament nor my personal life could handle taking 4 1/2 to 5 hours or more to play 18 holes.

For that reason, W. Eric Laing's America! What Have You Done to the Auld Game? should be right in my sweet spot. In it, Laing, a self-described "grumpy old Scotsman," uses a semi-autobiographical approach in lamenting and attacking how long it takes play a round of golf in the U.S. these days. While I wholeheartedly agree, Laing tends to overclub.

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