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My Dropping Keys co-conspirator is Tom Coyne

Tom is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author who has been publishing golf stories since 2001. His first book was the novel A Gentleman\\u2019s Game, which was named one of the best 25 sports books of all time by The Philadelphia Daily News.\\xa0 He wrote the film adaptation of the novel, which starred Gary Sinise, Philip Baker Hall, Dylan Baker, and Mason Gamble.\\xa0 His second book, Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer\\u2019s Quest to Play with the Pros was released June 2006, and was an editor\\u2019s pick in Esquire Magazine and USA Today, and a summer reading selection in The New York Times. \\xa0 His third book, A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee, was published by Gotham Books in February, 2009, and it chronicles his quest to walk and golf the whole of Ireland.\\xa0 The book was a New York Times, American Booksellers Association, and Barnes & Noble bestseller, and won a silver medal from the Society of American Travel Writers in the category of Best Travel Book of the Year.\\xa0

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His anticipated follow-up to A Course Called Ireland was released by Simon & Schuster in 2018: A Course Called Scotland was an instant New York Times bestseller, and chronicles Tom\\u2019s quest to play every links course in Scotland, searching the highlands for the secret to golf and a tee time in the oldest championship in sports. Tom\\u2019s travel trilogy reaches its conclusion with the release of A Course Called America from Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster in May of 2021. The story follows Tom as he plays his way across all 50 states, searching for the great American golf course, and it landed on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists in its first week.\\xa0

Tom is Senior Editor and podcast host at The Golfer\\u2019s Journal, and has written for Golf Magazine, Golfweek, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, and numerous other publications.\\xa0 His Golfer\\u2019s Journal story, \\u201cThe Lucky Ones\\u201d was named the best feature story of 2020 by the Golf Writers Association of America. He is also a host and writer for the travel television series, \\u201cThe Links Life.\\u201d\\xa0 Tom earned an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Notre Dame, where he won the William Mitchell Award for distinguished achievement. \\xa0

He lives outside Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.


You can find Tom\\xa0 at

Website: www.tomcoyne.com\\xa0

Instagram:\\xa0 @coynewriter