Patric's autobiography is 'The Good Minute.' I have only recently re-read it. He doesn't really talk about golf courses in it, although he does describe his learning to play as a young boy and his getting into the Cambridge team. Darwin, Longhurst, PB Lucas are mentioned - he knew them and played with them.
But if you are not interested in poetry you'll find yourself skipping quite a lot. If you are interested in poetry, and the English poets in particular, you'll be amazed at the people he knew personally. His favourite he did not know, Wilfred Owen, who was killed shortly before the end of the First World War. He quotes from Owen a great deal, which pleases me as they were some of Owen's poems which were assimilated into Britten's War Requiem alongside the latin ordinary. This year sees the centenary of Britten's birth and I am delighted to say that I have a performance of War Requiem in October. I've been wanting to do just one more performance of it before I snuff it.
You can feel the influence of Darwin's writing in A Round of Golf Courses, especially in using the first person a good deal - Longhurst did it, too. But in A Good Minute it is as if Dickinson is speaking rather than writing to us personally. He skips from subject to subject as his brain rattles along and it is a book that needs a detailed index or you find yourself turning back page after page to remind yourself who someone was or where you encountered the subject earlier. (I can imagine a Kindle would do this, but I can also imagine Patric's reaction to it!) The text of A Good Minute is a wonderful study of the use of English and its construction. Dickinson was classically educated and it helps if you some knowledge of ancient literature and, being classically educated, Patric uses exactly the right word, with its correct shade of meaning, in every instance.
You can pick up second hand copies of A Good Minute for very little on the internet.