Golf writer's Dornoch joy

CELEBRATED golf writer Lorne Rubenstein has been presented with life membership of Royal Dornoch Golf Club.

The Toronto-based, award-winning author was joined by his wife Nell, family, friends and members for a clubhouse ceremony held during his latest visit to a town which first cast its spell over a young Canadian nearly 50 years ago.

Lorne later spent the summer of 2000 with Nell based in a flat above the Dornoch Bookshop.

The resulting book, A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands – with a foreword contributed by Sean Connery – captured the essence of golf at Dornoch, weaving in the landscape, history, culture and characters who took the couple under their wing.

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