Fifty Years of Golf [Illustrated]

This edition features
• 36 illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes

CONTENTS
I The Beginning of All Things
II How Golf in England Grew
III Of Young Tommy Morris and other Great Men
IV The Spread of Golfing in England
V The Weapons of Golf in the Seventies
VI How Men of Westward Ho! went Adventuring in the North
VII Golf at Oxford
VIII The Start of the Oxford and Cambridge Golf Matches
IX Golfing Pilgrimages
X Westward Ho! Hoylake and St. Andrews in the Early Eighties
XI First Days at St. Andrews
XII The Beginnings of the Amateur Championship
XIII On Golf Books and Golf Balls
XIV The First Amateur Championship
XV Mr. Arthur Balfour and his Influence in Golf
XVI The Second Amateur Championship
XVII The First Golf in America
XVIII How I Lost the Championship and Played the Most Wonderful Shot in the World
XIX Johnny Ball and Johnny Laidlay
XX A Chapter of Odds and Ends
XXI A More Liberal Policy at St. Andrews
XXII The First Amateur Win of the Open Championship
XXIII Golf on the Continent and in the Channel Islands
XXIV About Harold Hilton, Freddy Tait and Others
XXV The Coming of the Three Great Men
XXVI The Revolt of the Amazons
XXVII The Making of Inland Courses
XXVIII Various Championships and the Wandering Societies
XXIX The Comic Coming of the Haskell Ball
XXX An Historic Match and an Historic Type
XXXI The International Match
XXXII How Mr. Justice Buckley kept his Eye on the Haskell Ball
XXXIII The Amateur Championship of 1903
XXXIV Travis's Year
XXXV How Golf has Gripped America
XXXVI The End of the Round

ILLUSTRATIONS
The writer, the first English Captain of the Royal and Ancient, buying back, according to custom, the ball struck off to win the Captaincy
Borough House, Northam
Mr. Peter Steel driving the gravel pit at Blackheath
At Pau: the oldest of non-Scottish Golf Clubs
Captain's Medal of the Royal North Devon Golf Club
The Ladies' Course at Pau, in the Days of the Crinoline
Miss Cecil Leitch
Westward Ho!
An Old Hoylake Group
An Old Westward Ho! Group
Thomas Owen Potter
"Old Tom"
Douglas Rolland and Archie Simpson
John Ball
A.F. Macfie
A.J. Balfour
Crawford
John Ball, as a Yeoman
J.E. Laidlay
The Chasm on the Old Biarritz Course
Arnaud Massy
J.E. Laidlay, John Ball, junr., Horace G. Hutchinson, and P.C. Anderson
H.H. Hilton
Freddy Tait
J.H. Taylor
Harry Vardon
James Braid
Horace Hutchinson and Leslie Balfour Melville
Amateur Championship, St. Andrews, 1901
Amateur Championship, St. Andrews, 1895
Old Leather Ball, etc.
Gutty v. Rubber Core
The Amateur and Professional Sides at Sandwich in 1894
"Fiery"
Walter Travis
Charles B. Macdonald

Fifty Years of Golf [Illustrated]