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Fifty Years of Golf

by Horace G. Hutchinson

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Postscript to Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — The Beginning of All Things
  4. 4Chapter II — How Golf in England Grew
  5. 5Chapter III — Of Young Tommy Morris and Other Great Men
  6. 6Chapter IV — The Spread of Golfing in England
  7. 7Chapter V — The Weapons of Golf in the Seventies
  8. 8Chapter VI — How Men of Westward Ho! Went Adventuring in the North
  9. 9Chapter VII — Golf at Oxford
  10. 10Chapter VIII — The Start of the Oxford and Cambridge Golf Matches
  11. 11Chapter IX — Golfing Pilgrimages
  12. 12Chapter X — Westward Ho! Hoylake and St. Andrews in the Early Eighties
  13. 13Chapter XI — First Days at St. Andrews
  14. 14Chapter XII — The Beginnings of the Amateur Championship
  15. 15Chapter XIII — On Golf Books and Golf Balls
  16. 16Chapter XIV — The First Amateur Championship
  17. 17Chapter XV — Mr. Arthur Balfour and His Influence in Golf
  18. 18Chapter XVI — The Second Amateur Championship
  19. 19Chapter XVII — The First Golf in America
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — How I Lost the Championship and Played the Most Won…
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Johnny Ball and Johnny Laidlay
  22. 22Chapter XX — A Chapter of Odds and Ends
  23. 23Chapter XXI — A More Liberal Policy at St. Andrews
  24. 24Chapter XXII — The First Amateur Win of the Open Championship
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — Golf on the Continent and in the Channel Islands
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — About Harold Hilton, Freddy Tait and Others
  27. 27Chapter XXV — The Coming of the Three Great Men
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — The Revolt of the Amazons
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — The Making of Inland Courses
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Various Championships and the Wandering Societies
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — The Comic Coming of the Haskell Ball
  32. 32Chapter XXX — An Historic Match and an Historic Type
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — The International Match
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — How Mr. Justice Buckley Kept His Eye on the Haskell…
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — The Amateur Championship of 1903
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — Travis’s Year
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — How Golf Has Gripped America
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — The End of the Round
  39. 39The “Country Life” Library — Windsor Castle
  40. 40Garden Ornament
  41. 41In English Homes
  42. 42Gardens Old and New
  43. 43Twenty-Five Great Houses of France
  44. 44Houses and Gardens
  45. 45Grinling Gibbons
  46. 46Our Common Sea-Birds

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