A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands

The town of Dornoch, Scotland, lies at nearly the same latitude as Juneau, Alaska. Though the town is bit too small and remote to host a British Open, it has hardly diminished Royal Dornoch’ s mystique or renown. In an influential piece for The New Yorker in 1964 (and now included in this edition), Herbert Warren Wind wrote, “ It is the most natural course in the world. No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch.”

Lorne spent a summer in Dornoch to r...