Lawrence Donegan

Lawrence Donegan (born 13 July 1961, in Stirling, Scotland), is a musician and journalist, currently Golf Correspondent at "The Guardian". [http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardiancontacts/page/0,,1419452,00.html Lawrence Donegan] , "The Guardian", accessed 13 January 2008]

Donegan was educated at St Modan's High School and the University of Glasgow, where his musical career began. He was the bassist in The Bluebells, whose biggest hit was "Young at Heart", and Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. After Lloyd Cole and the Commotions split, Donegan became a journalist and an author. In between times he worked as the House of Commons assistant to Brian Wilson MP. While in that role, he was part of a one-off band called the Stop Its that recorded an anti-poll tax song of a similar name. The band also included David Hill, later press spokesman for Tony Blair. [Pendennis [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/diary/story/0,,1041884,00.html Spin those discs] , 14 September 2003, accessed 13 January 2008] Donegan is currently a golf journalist for "The Guardian", having previously worked at "The Scotsman". He has held a post with the former publication since 2004, although he has been at the newspaper since 1994, as a general reporter and then as the Scotland Correspondent from 1997-2004.

He has written four non-fiction books:
*"Four Iron in the Soul" (Penguin, 1998) - the story of his year caddying for Ross Drummond, the 438th best golfer in the world at the time, also published as "Maybe It Should Have Been A 3-Iron" in North America.
*"California Dreaming: A Smooth-running, Low-mileage, Cut-price American Adventure" (Washington Square Press, 1999) - about the time he spent as a used-car salesman in the United States
*"No News at Throat Lake" (Penguin, 2000) - about working for a bi-weekly newspaper in a small Donegal village.
*"Quiet Please" (Yellow Jersey Press, 2004) - about his experiences as a Ryder Cup steward.

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