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Tony Ristola

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A Time For Sharing: Free Classic Books
« on: January 16, 2008, 11:28:48 AM »
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=golf%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts

What you will find; downloadable in pdf. format. There are other odds and ends. Enjoy.

Golf - Smith, Garden G. (Garden Grant), 1860-1913

Practical golf - Travis, Walter J

Golf at Gleneagles - Maclennan, R. J

How to play golf - Whigham, H. J. (Henry James), b. 1869

The Gist Of Golf - Harry Vardon

Intimate golf talks - Dunn, John Duncan

Fifty years of golf - Hutchinson, Horace G. (Horace Gordon), 1859-1932

The enchanted golf clubs; - Marshall, Robert

The new book on golf - Hutchinson, Horace G. (Horace Gordon), 1859-1932

Taylor on golf; impressions, comments & hints - Taylor, John Henry

The golf swing, the Ernest Jones method - Hammond, Daryn

Golf greens and green-keeping - Hutchinson, Horace G. (Horace Gordon), 1859-1932

The golf courses of the British isles - Darwin, Bernard Richard Meirion, 1876-

Mr. Punch's golf stories : told by his merry men - May, Phil, 1864-1903, ill

My golfing reminiscences - Hilton, Harold H. (Harold Horsfall), b. 1869

Reminiscences of the old Bruntsfield Links Gold Club, 1866-1874 - Aitchison, Thomas S





Paul_Turner

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Re:A Time For Sharing: Free Classic Books
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2008, 12:15:21 PM »
That's brilliant, thanks Tony!
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Paul Stephenson

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Re:A Time For Sharing: Free Classic Books
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2008, 01:08:11 PM »
Excellent source.  Thanks.

Just spent my lunch reading the chapter The Construction and Upkeep of Courses in Travis' Practical Golf.

Some interesting stuff

Tony Ristola

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Re:A Time For Sharing: Free Classic Books
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2008, 04:34:01 AM »
For those who may have missed it:
Bump

Ian Andrew

Re:A Time For Sharing: Free Classic Books
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2008, 08:17:22 AM »
Tony,

Thank you - I'm enjoying the reading.

Brian_Ewen

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Re:A Time For Sharing: Free Classic Books
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2008, 10:40:01 AM »
Tony
Thanks for the heads up .

The 'Golf at Gleneagles' was very informative , and enjoyable .

Tommy Williamsen

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Re:A Time For Sharing: Free Classic Books
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2008, 05:11:59 PM »
What a world we live in.  I have been wanting to read Vardon's How to Play Golf.  Thanks for the link.
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Patrick Kiser

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Re:A Time For Sharing: Free Classic Books
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2008, 09:08:42 PM »
Awesome.  Many thanks for sharing.
“One natural hazard, however, which is more
or less of a nuisance, is water. Water hazards
absolutely prohibit the recovery shot, perhaps
the best shot in the game.” —William Flynn, golf
course architect

Joe Hancock

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Re:A Time For Sharing: Free Classic Books
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2008, 09:14:54 PM »
Thanks, Tony. I've been using the music section of archive.org for years now. Great site to explore.

Joe
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Tim_Cronin

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Re:A Time For Sharing: Free Classic Books
« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2008, 03:51:27 PM »
Wow! Thanks, Tony. Could spend weeks going through this.
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Tony Ristola

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Re: A Time For Sharing: Free Classic Books
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2010, 08:36:39 AM »
Bump.