CRAIG J. GILL is a Scottish writer, researcher, and historian. Having grown up playing golf and caddying for the occasional American tourist in Edinburgh and the East Neuk of Fife, he completed an undergraduate degree in History and a Master’ s in American Studies at the University of Glasgow.

He spent the subsequent five years in the U.S. South, studying the region’ s complex past. He earned a PhD in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Craig now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia— four thousand miles from his (and golf’ s) home country, but still deeply committed to illuminating a more holistic understanding of golf’ s rich past.