Adrian,
I don't want to be typical German but may I correct you: The Golfer's Handbook which you are referring to and which is still published today was first published in 1899. So it is probably the longest-running (and also most repetitive) annual golfing publication and shouldn't be mixed up with the Golfing Annual as from 1899 to 1910 both Yearbooks were published (and then there was also the Nisbet's Golf Year-book, in red cloth like the Golfer's handbook, published from 1905 to 1914).
The Golfing Annual usually contained more information for every single golf course sometimes also with small description of the course etc.
Christoph