A Short History Of Golf

‘Bloody brilliant.’ – Greg Norman

This book tells the magnificent, sometimes tragic, always inspiring storiesof the greats of golf and how they lit up the world with their own brandsof magic.

Since Old Tom Morris won three of the first four Open Championshipsin the 1860s at the famous St Andrews course, so many greats have viedfor that prize since.

Did you know that Bobby Jones created the famous Augusta course?That Sam Sneed won three green jackets? Let’s not forget Ben Hogan,Gene Sarazen, Gary Player (The King) and Jack Nicklaus. Then there wasthe magnificent Seve, the Great White Shark and Tiger.

And the women are here too: Karrie Webb, Jan Stephenson, PattyBerg, Annika Sorenstam and Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias, known asBabe after Babe Ruth because she was truly magnificent.

Written by sports writer and golf mad Matt Cleary – featuringinterviews with Greg Norman, Gary Player, David Graham and IanBaker-Finch – A Short History of Golf is one man’s take on the highs andlows of the great game of golf.