Golf books

[JohnV]

Just so that other part of the game is covered:

Richard Tufts - The Principles of the Rules of Golf

Kenneth Chapman - Rules of the Green: A History of the Rules of Golf

Geoffrey Cousins - Golfers at Law

and of course:
USGA & R&A - Decisions on the Rules of Golf

[JohnV]

One fiction to add, although it is really only a short story and can be found in a number of anthologies:

Holworthy Hall - Dormie One

[BCrosby]

If you include fiction, you gotta have "The Haunted Major".

Delightful.

Bob

[ForkaB]

Bob

I looked around for my "Golf Dreams," but the plumber must have ripped it off....

Updike is so overrated, that I don't even rate him, and I grew up in "Rabbit" country and played my early golf at his old haunts on Cape Ann, before he become posh.  In fact, I think I remember him from a round at Candlewood in Ipswich in 1958--he was the guy that sliced a ball off of my Aunt Peggy's arse and just pulled his hat over his head and tried to ignore it.....

[Eric Olsen]

My father was an avid golfer who won tournaments in 5 decades of his life and taught me and my brothers how to play.  He was also an accomplished printer, with a fine handset letter press on which he printed poetry, leaf prints, and miniature books.  The last book he published was entitled, The Last Hole:  Epitaphs for Golfers.  My favorite is:  Quiet Please, I'm Six Under.  

[Forrest Richardson]

Eric — That reminds me of a true story...a construction crew in the Southeast U.S. was building a course when they discovered a casket on the 3rd fairway. It was a casket with a glass window — popular in the early 1900s...apparently.

Anyway, after the body was re-located, they resumed. The decesaed — a woman — was then heralded as the only person ever to...

"...be six under after two..."

[Eric Olsen]

Very good!  Reminds me of another one:  "Best Lie I Ever Had"

[Walter Bart]

Rich

      I think you missed the green by a few yards re. Updike, especially while seeming to equate golfing abiility with writing ability.  

[Tommy_Naccarato]

I like Tony Pioppi's newest, bestus, newest, wham-bam-grad slam novel, To The Nines!

It's loaded with stuff that will spin your head around faster then you can say Linda Blair, and yes, I have not been paid--yet---to say this..........

[Noel Freeman]

Pioppi's book makes for a nice snuggly stocking stuffer very much unlike its author..

[Lloyd_Cole]

James Balfour, "Reminiscences of Golf on St. Andrews Links."

By far the best book I have seen on what it was actually like to play golf in the mid-19th century.  Eye-opening revelations, too, as to how the Old Course really evolved.

It has been re-printed and is available.

Rich, you beat me to it. A lovely little book.

I'd also add Shackleford's 'Masters of the Links' - essays by Jones, Dye et al. I think this book was probably most useful to me in early understanding of GCA. The tiny understanding I have, that is...

[Mike Hendren]

Favorite non-fiction?

All I'll say is that I just placed a $100 bet on the Corbett Comets to win the Texas state championship this weekend.  With Rickie Don Tooler and Dickie Ron Tooler in the backfield, they are a lock.   Run Tooler twins, run!

Mike

[ANTHONYPIOPPI]

Tommy,

It is inaccurate to portray my book as a novel since all the stories of the courses are true. It is more of a 9-hole travelogue wouldn’t you say? And it is just as  wrong for your pal Noel to portray me as Unstocking-stuffable and unsnuggable.

Anthony

[Gary Slatter]

Half finished"To the Nines" and quite enjoy it.  When the International edition comes out please include Manchester Golf Club in Mandeville Jamaica, its older than any course in Ireland!

[ANTHONYPIOPPI]

Gary,

Glad you are enjoying the book and thanks for the tip. Man, an international version would be terrific.

Anthony

[Gary Slatter]

Gary,

Glad you are enjoying the book and thanks for the tip. Man, an international version would be terrific.

Anthony
I was born in the clubhouse of a nine hole course, always have played every course as two nine holers. 61 years later I still remember every inch of the course, Huntsville Downs.