"Reminiscences of Golf on St. Andrews Links by James Balfour, 1887, with Illustrations by Thomas Hodge and Plans of the Links"

This season's publishing highlight — once again from Grant Books.

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Due to golf’s un-rushed evolution — not unlike that in medicine, cooking, sailing, painting, welding … — attempting an understanding of the 600-year progression of the Old Course of St. Andrews, the social customs and propriety that surround it, and the implements and balls for playing the game upon it, requires forbearance.

Golf gained…