Tim,
I am hoping not to take the attention away from John's fine book - the subject of Neil's thread.
I think it is right that it is awfully difficult to make a club history interesting to anybody but the members who are written about.
They rarely are about the history of the courses - more the social history and the story of the establishment.
Hopefully both books are models for clubs and people who are interested in the course, the architects and the architecture.
The essays are a mix of things that happened on the holes during big events, the strategies of the holes, how they exemplify MacKenzie and Russell's ideals and the 'architecture'