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

A hilarious and poignant memoir of a Harvard student who comes of age as a caddie on St. Andrewss fabled Old Course.

In the middle of Oliver Horovitzs high school graduation ceremony, his cell phone rang: It was Harvard. Hed been accepted, but he couldnt 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, Scotlanda town with the U.K.s highest number of pubs per capita, and home to the Old Course, golf s most famous eighteen holeswhere 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, Ollies new classmates are the sons of Albanias 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 cant 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 worlds most celebrated golf courseand its equally famous caddie shackAn American Caddie in St. Andrewsis certain to not only entertain golfers and fans of St. Andrews but also anyone who dares to remember stumbling into adulthood and finding ones place in the world.