One Country Club Drive: Stories Across Three Generations of Greenskeeping

Event Description

Local author Marty Peck shares what it was like to literally grow up on a golf course, with behind-the-scenes escapades right out of a caddy shack movie. Stories from three generations of keepers of the greens blend golf history with plenty of humorous and lifelong lessons. Learn about the evolution of the historic course, from its horse-drawn construction one-hundred years ago on the former Post cereal family summer estate. The Peck family watched the likes of Walter Hagan, Ben Hogan and Arnold Palmer play in their back yard.
One Country Club Drive relates an entirely different, rarely discussed, part of the sport: the course itself and those who create and tend it. The stories in this book revolve around the home that three generations of keepers of the greens lived in, with plenty of opportunities for fun and lifelong lessons. Ever see a team of horses pulling a mower down the fairways? Not likely, but that’s what Grandpa Andy did. Woven among hair-raising tales of slot-machine con artists, devastating fires, and national
scandals are stories of family, flooding and dealing with club members from threegenerations of greenskeeping.

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Marty Peck lived many a golfing fan’s dreams while playing and working on the Battle Creek Country Club, experiencing the sport from behind the scenes. From a young age he dreamt of following the greenskeeper footsteps of his father and grandfather, yet ultimately broke family tradition to become an engineer. Over the last 30-years he has become renowned internationally for his lighting design creativity on architectural projects. Writing this book has allowed him to relive the antics of his youth and pay homage to his family’s 90-year golf legacy.

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