Fifty Years of Golf (Classic Reprint)

<i>Fifty Years of Golf</i> is a memoir written by Horace G. Hutchinson, a successful amateur golfer and one of the first great instructors of the game. It provides the unique opportunity to hear about the history and development of the game from someone with first hand experience of many of the most important events.<br><br>The book opens with a preface in which the author outlines his qualifications for writing a history of the sport. From there, the book begins its history of golf, with Hutchinson using personal accounts to illuminate stories about the game's growth in popularity. The book is structured into chapters, each of which discusses a different theme or event of significance. There are chapters on the sport's early days in England, the first amateur championship, the growth of the sport throughout Great Britain, the spread of the game to America, and the construction of magnificent golf courses, amongst other topics. The book contains a good deal of illustrations, most of which are images of some of the sport's early pioneers.<br><br>Horace G. Hutchinson was a gifted writer as well as a golfer. His stories are both amusing and informative, and he seemed to have an innate ability to find himself in situations of historical significance to the development of the sport. Hutchinson sprinkles humour throughout his writing, and keeps the reader entertained for the duration of the briskly paced 250 pages.<br><br><i>Fifty Years of Golf</i> will appeal to anybody interested in the early years of the sport. Hutchinson's book is informative, amusing, and well written.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.