An American Caddie in St. Andrews · Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course

In the middle of Oliver Horovitz's high school graduation ceremony, his cell

phone rang: It was Harvard. He'd been accepted, but he couldn't start for

another year.

A caddie since he was twelve and a golfer sporting a 1.8 handicap, Ollie

decides to spend his gap year in St. Andrews, Scotland—a town with the U.K.'s

highest number of pubs per capita, and home to the Old Course, golf's most

famous eighteen holes—where he enrolls in the St. Andrews Links Trust caddie

trainee program. Initially, the notoriously brusque veteran caddies treat

Ollie like a bug. But after a year of waking up at 4:30 A.M. every morning and

looping two rounds a day, Ollie earns their grudging respect—only to have to

pack up and leave for Harvard.

There, Ollie's new classmates are the sons of Albania's UN ambassador, the

owner of Heineken, and the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Surrounded by sixth

generation legacies, he feels like a fish out of water all over again and

can't wait to get back to St. Andrews. Even after graduation, when his college

friends rush to Wall Street, Horovitz continues to return each summer to

caddie on the Old Course. A hilarious, irresistible, behind-the-scenes peek at

the world's most celebrated golf course—and its equally famous caddie shack—

_An American Caddie in St. Andrews_ is certain to not only entertain golfers

and fans of St. Andrews but also anyone who dares to remember stumbling into

adulthood and finding one's place in the world.