I've spent the last six to ten months reading like a madman. Right now I'm in the middle of a few fascinating books,
How the Scots Invented the Modern World (about the Scottish Enlightenment. Fascinating book)
A New History of Jazz (writing a research paper on Davis, Parker, Coltrane, and Monk and their influence on the Civil Rights movement)
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations and
What Kind of Nation (about the conflict between Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall.)
But sometimes I take a break, and lately it has been with
Aspects of Golf Course Architecture: 1889-1924 compiled by Fred Hawtree. It has selections from Horace Hutchinson, Willie Park, Jr., Garden Smith, J.H. Taylor, John Low, Harry Vardon, H.S. Colt, C.K. Hutchison, James Braid, W.H. Fowler, Dr. MacKenzie, F.G. Hawtree, Sir Guy Campbell, Reginald Beale and T.P. Cooke (Interview with C.D. Harris.)
It's my second time reading it, but I seem to be getting more out of it this time. The book is available from Grant Books.
"There is hardly such a thing as an unfair bunker. Even the hazard right in the middle of the course at the end of a long tee shot, like the ninth hole bunker at St. Andrews is really quite a fair risk. That it is only a good shot which goes into it is often the complaint we hear. True, true, gente grumbler, but not good enough. If a player is going to drive as far as that pot, he must see to it that he drives to one side or the other; there is plenty of room on either flank."
--John L. Low