Author : Charles Blair MacDonald
Release : 2020-03-22
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Scotland's Gift, Golf: Reminiscences by Charles Blair Macdonald - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scotland's Gift, Golf: Reminiscences by Charles Blair Macdonald write by Charles Blair MacDonald. This book was released on 2020-03-22. Scotland's Gift, Golf: Reminiscences by Charles Blair Macdonald available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scotland's Gift, Golf is a masterpiece of early golf literature, written by the Father of American Golf Course Architecture, C.B. Macdonald. Considered by historians to be the most important book ever written on early American golf, this book details the birth of golf in the United States in the late nineteenth century and the formation of the U.S.G.A. in 1894. In addition to a detailed summary of the characteristics of an ideal golf course, this guide provides rare insight into the methods and philosophies that Macdonald used to design some of the world's most renowned courses, including the National Golf Links of America, Mid-Ocean Club, Lido, and Yale Golf Club. It also includes personal anecdotes and correspondence describing the development of the rules of golf, as well as the evolution of the modern golf ball and golf club. Written in 1928, this book features 56 black-and-white photographs from the author's personal collection, including rare photos of Bobby Jones, Young Tom Morris, and Francis Ouimet. Also included is an appendix which highlights the oldest surviving rules of golf from 1754, as well as the amended version from 1858.