The First Shot Press The First Shot Press Limited is an independent publisher based in Hong Kong. If you wish to contact us please send an e-mail to enquiries@thefirstshotpress.com. About the publisher James Spence was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1965. He played golf in his formative years at East Renfrewshire Golf Club and Western Gailes on the Ayrshire coast before attending St. Andrews University where he divided his time unequally between the Moral Philosophy department, the Old Course and the Jigger Inn. Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant in London in 1989, James moved to Asia in 1990 and where he worked for several financial institutions. In 2004 he wrote "Asia's Top 50 Golf Courses" which was commissioned by Deutsche Bank and is not available for public sale. The follow up edition "The Finest Courses of Asia & Australasia" was published in December 2005. He has contributed articles and photographs to Golf International, LINKS Magazine, Golf Monthly, Travel & Leisure Golf, DestinAsian, Discovery Magazine, Asian Golf Monthly, Slice, HKGolfer and the South China Morning Post. About the FIRST SHOT magazine FIRST SHOT is a quarterly golf magazine featuring golf writing from around the world including objective course and travel reviews, book reviews, articles on course architecture, the professional game, and humour. The most recently published edition contains a travel piece about the best courses in the North East of Scotland by James Spence, a review of lesser known English links by Keith Baxter the author of Top 100 Courses of the UK, reviews of the recently published books "Preferred Lies" and "For Love or Money" as a well as a contribution from the award winning Scottish writer and poet Andrew Greig. Previous contributors have included course architects and golf writers Tom Doak and Neil Crafter and Asian based golf writer Alex Jenkins. The editors of this magazine can be contacted at editors@thefirstshotpress.com