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A Zen Approach To
Playing Golf In
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About The Authors

The authors are unimportant to this volume, other than as the “Messengers” for the wisdom imparted to them by the two Highland Sheep encountered on the Brora Golf Course in the Scottish Highlands one time when they (the authors) were playing a round there. However, you can tell just by looking at them that these sheep were not ordinary sheep. In fact, these sheep, whose ordinary job is trimming the rough and the fairways, were not always “sheep”. In a previous life they’d been well-known Zen Buddhists - who also happened to be two of the champion links golfers of Scotland. You will note that one of the sheep is a ram, and the other is a ewe. This was not a coincidence. Our Highland Sheep were imparting knowledge for both gentlemen and lady players. And so, dear readers, are we ..(More about the authors...)
 
 

 

James C. Plowden-Wardlaw

James Campbell Plowden-Wardlaw hit his first golf ball into the gorse bushes at Old Prestwick -- the cradle of championship golf and site of the first British Open -- at the age of nine, during a family visit to a great aunt in Ayr, Scotland. He returned home to America impressed by the game, but waited more than fifty years to play again in Scotland.

Since that first errant shot, he has explored, either as a tourist, journalist or lawyer, diverse cultures and environments -- including golf courses and Buddhist temples -- in Asia, Africa and Europe, as well as North and South America. He and his co-author and their wives often travel to exotic destinations together, and Birdie for Buddha was born during one such trip to Scotland.

James Plowden-Wardlaw now lives in Manhattan. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia Law School. He also studied at the University of Madrid and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. He is married and has two daughters, one stepson and five grandchildren.

 

 
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