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Scotland's Gift: How America Discovered Golf
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780966184761
ISBN: 0966184769
Label: Tatra Press
Manufacturer: Tatra Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: June 25, 2003
Publisher: Tatra Press
Studio: Tatra Press
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First published in 1928, Macdonald's Scotland's Gift is arguably the most important book ever written on American golf. Macdonald elegantly chronicles how golf grew from being a little-known Scottish oddity with a mere handful of American courses in 1890 and spread like wild fire to some 4,000 courses by 1927.
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Rating: - Required reading for serious golfers
Although I don't know that I could define "serious golfer" off hand, you might fit in that category if:
You have ever played at the National Golf Links of America
Want to know how the USGA came to be
Wonder what golf was like in the late 19th century in the US
Dream of building your own course, but have no clue what "good design" is
Personally, I fit into the last slot. Most of us play rounds or look at yardage books and try to figure out why one course ... Read More
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