Pitchmarks #24 - 10th December 2023 - "Slipping into Dornoch Ways"

The Dornoch Links, frozen in time; image courtesy of Simon Pope

“Forces converge in Dornoch. The place is the essence of golf. There’s a rightness about it” Alan Grant, quoted in “A Season in Dornoch”, by Lorne Rubenstein

My copy of the late Peter Matthiessen’s “The Snow Leopard” is by this point battered. I borrowed it from the Oxford Street bookstore w…