{"product_id":"2940013359123","title":"Fifty Years of Golf [Illustrated]","description":"This edition features\u003cbr\u003e •  36 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e • a linked Table of Contents and  linked Footnotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eI The Beginning of All Things \u003cbr\u003eII How Golf in England Grew \u003cbr\u003eIII Of Young Tommy Morris and other Great Men \u003cbr\u003eIV The Spread of Golfing in England \u003cbr\u003eV The Weapons of Golf in the Seventies \u003cbr\u003eVI How Men of Westward Ho! went Adventuring in the North \u003cbr\u003eVII Golf at Oxford \u003cbr\u003eVIII The Start of the Oxford and Cambridge Golf Matches \u003cbr\u003eIX Golfing Pilgrimages \u003cbr\u003eX Westward Ho! Hoylake and St. Andrews in the Early Eighties \u003cbr\u003eXI First Days at St. Andrews \u003cbr\u003eXII The Beginnings of the Amateur Championship \u003cbr\u003eXIII On Golf Books and Golf Balls \u003cbr\u003eXIV The First Amateur Championship \u003cbr\u003eXV Mr. Arthur Balfour and his Influence in Golf \u003cbr\u003eXVI The Second Amateur Championship \u003cbr\u003eXVII The First Golf in America \u003cbr\u003eXVIII How I Lost the Championship and Played the Most Wonderful Shot in the World \u003cbr\u003eXIX Johnny Ball and Johnny Laidlay \u003cbr\u003eXX A Chapter of Odds and Ends \u003cbr\u003eXXI A More Liberal Policy at St. Andrews \u003cbr\u003eXXII The First Amateur Win of the Open Championship \u003cbr\u003eXXIII Golf on the Continent and in the Channel Islands \u003cbr\u003eXXIV About Harold Hilton, Freddy Tait and Others \u003cbr\u003eXXV The Coming of the Three Great Men \u003cbr\u003eXXVI The Revolt of the Amazons \u003cbr\u003eXXVII The Making of Inland Courses \u003cbr\u003eXXVIII Various Championships and the Wandering Societies \u003cbr\u003eXXIX The Comic Coming of the Haskell Ball \u003cbr\u003eXXX An Historic Match and an Historic Type \u003cbr\u003eXXXI The International Match \u003cbr\u003eXXXII How Mr. Justice Buckley kept his Eye on the Haskell Ball \u003cbr\u003eXXXIII The Amateur Championship of 1903 \u003cbr\u003eXXXIV Travis's Year \u003cbr\u003eXXXV How Golf has Gripped America \u003cbr\u003eXXXVI The End of the Round\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003eThe writer, the first English Captain of the Royal and Ancient, buying back, according to custom, the ball struck off to win the Captaincy\u003cbr\u003eBorough House, Northam\u003cbr\u003eMr. Peter Steel driving the gravel pit at Blackheath\u003cbr\u003eAt Pau: the oldest of non-Scottish Golf Clubs\u003cbr\u003eCaptain's Medal of the Royal North Devon Golf Club\u003cbr\u003eThe Ladies' Course at Pau, in the Days of the Crinoline\u003cbr\u003eMiss Cecil Leitch\u003cbr\u003eWestward Ho!\u003cbr\u003eAn Old Hoylake Group\u003cbr\u003eAn Old Westward Ho! Group\u003cbr\u003eThomas Owen Potter\u003cbr\u003e\"Old Tom\"\u003cbr\u003eDouglas Rolland and Archie Simpson\u003cbr\u003eJohn Ball\u003cbr\u003eA.F. Macfie\u003cbr\u003eA.J. Balfour\u003cbr\u003eCrawford\u003cbr\u003eJohn Ball, as a Yeoman\u003cbr\u003eJ.E. Laidlay\u003cbr\u003eThe Chasm on the Old Biarritz Course\u003cbr\u003eArnaud Massy\u003cbr\u003eJ.E. Laidlay, John Ball, junr., Horace G. Hutchinson, and P.C. Anderson\u003cbr\u003eH.H. Hilton\u003cbr\u003eFreddy Tait\u003cbr\u003eJ.H. Taylor\u003cbr\u003eHarry Vardon\u003cbr\u003eJames Braid\u003cbr\u003eHorace Hutchinson and Leslie Balfour Melville\u003cbr\u003eAmateur Championship, St. Andrews, 1901\u003cbr\u003eAmateur Championship, St. Andrews, 1895\u003cbr\u003eOld Leather Ball, etc.\u003cbr\u003eGutty v. Rubber Core\u003cbr\u003eThe Amateur and Professional Sides at Sandwich in 1894\u003cbr\u003e\"Fiery\"\u003cbr\u003eWalter Travis\u003cbr\u003eCharles B. Macdonald","brand":"PastIsProlog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145667625200,"sku":"2940013359123","price":3.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013359123_p0.jpg?v=1763579865","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013359123","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}