Par 10,000
A Golfing Odyssey Across Mountains, Moors and Fields

ISBN: 1-84018-444-2
Price: £9.99
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing

At the start of summer 2000, David Ewen found himself standing on the edge of the North Sea with a golf club drawn and nothing to aim at but Scotland. The plan: to hit a ball across the birth place of the game, negotiating roads, towns, fields, rivers and mountains. And the for this quarter-million yard course?

Ten thousand!

Here is someone quietly raging against the suffocating constraints of modern living - a grown man driving, pitching, putting and hacking his way across our increasingly cramped country, following his ball into the remotest corners of Scottish life. En route, David encounters a vast range of prople with whom he discusses everything from land access to e.coli and fox-hunting. He finds himself in numerous bizarre situations, including shearing sheep with a winner of One Man and His Dog and receiving a blessing from a reverend Canon before firing his last golf ball into Loch Levan.

The result is a snapshot of Scotland in the millennial year - part travelogue, part polemic, part personal memoir. An unashamedly mindless adventure. Par 10,000 is a quirky tale of one man's rebellion against today's fast-living society and a debunking of golf with all its rules and regulations.