New James Braid book

[Jim McCann]

I haven't been on the gca site for a good while so I don' t know if there's been a thread about the James Braid book that appeared earlier this year. 

Anyway, a review has just been published on the www.top100golfcourses.com website for this mighty tome:

https://www.top100golfcourses.com/news-item/book-review-divine-fury-of-james-braid-professional-golf-standard-bearer

Jim McCann
Editor
Top 100 Golf Courses

[Dónal Ó Ceallaigh]

I'd really like to know what work - if any - Braid did at Rosapenna, but I'd rather not take a chance on purchasing the book and then discover there's no mention of Rosapenna at all. It does sound like a really comprehensive set of books.

[Niall C]

Jim


Good to see you posting. A couple of questions;


- how does Volume 3 compare to the Moreton and Cumming book - Braid and his 400 courses ?


- is the £250 price tag for all 3 volumes together or for each volume ?


Niall

[Cal Carlisle]

Niall,

It says on the YPD page that the £250 covers all three books.


-Cal

[Niall C]

Thanks Cal, I couldn't get onto the YPD page.


Niall

[Jim McCann]

 
Niall C

This book blows the other one competely out of the water!

Donal

Rosapenna is listed under a section at the back of VOLUME 3 entitled "COMMENTS ON COURSES WHERE OTHERS HAVE ATTRIBUTED SOME ELEMENT OF DESIGN TO BRAID" where the author states: 

"It is said that Vardon and Braid together added length and bunkering to Old Tom's course in 1906, while they were there to play in a match. There does not seem to be any reports of such a match or of Braid ever being at Rosapenna."


Apologies for presumably being the author of reply #6!!!

[Niall C]

Niall C
This book blows the other one completely out of the water!
 
Dónal
 
Rosapenna is listed under a section at the back of VOLUME 3 entitled "COMMENTS ON COURSES WHERE OTHERS HAVE ATTRIBUTED SOME ELEMENT OF DESIGN TO BRAID" where the author states on page 603:
 
"It is said that Vardon and Braid together added length and bunkering to Old Tom's course in 1906, while they were there to play in a match. There does not seem to be any reports of such a match or of Braid ever being at Rosapenna."