Golf, A Very Peculiar History电子书

Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Dedication

Golf, A Very Peculiar History

Quotes

A few reasons to play golf

A few reasons not to play golf

Introduction

Teeing

But is it golf?

Missing links

Too much of a good thing

The sport of kings

Royal golf courses

Mary, Queen of Scots

The first golf international

Brought to book

Gentlemen golfers

Enter the Americans

The First Laws of the Game

CHAPTER ONE: Up Hill & Down Dale

Rough and tough

Why 18 holes?

Giving God a helping hand

A beginner’s guide to golf: 1. The golf course

Fazio digs deep

Costing the earth

Highs and lows

A beginner’s guide to golf: 2. How to score

Tripping up Trump

CHAPTER TWO: The Tools For The Job

Hawthorn and ash

A beginner’s guide to golf: 3. Your set of clubs

The Schenectady putter

The clubs of yesteryear

Sabbath sticks

Fore!

Ginger beer

And a few other things...

New balls

A hole in one

CHAPTER THREE: Members Only

A beginner’s guide to golf: 4. Types of game

The underclass

Blackballing

A black player in the Open

Two incidents in 1990 revealed that old habits die hard:

Elder statesman

Augusta National

Up for a fight

Women’s Majors

A beginner’s guide to golf: 5. Handicapping

What happened to Michelle?

CHAPTER FOUR: Pleased To Meet You

A beginner’s guide to golf: 6. Types of team games

Pitching for a job

Jaw-jaw

Political golfers

Best behaviour

More golf quotations

A beginner’s guide to golf: 7. The shots you make

CHAPTER FIVE: Golfing Greats

World Golf Hall of Fame

Old Tom Morris (1821–1908)

Young Tom Morris (1851–1875)

Harry Vardon (1870–1937)

A beginner’s guide to golf: 8. Getting a grip

Walter Hagen (1892–1969)

Bobby Jones (1902–1971)

Enter the pros

Gene Sarazen (1902–1999)

Jimmy Demaret (1910–1983)

Ben Hogan (1912–1997)

Sam Snead (1912–2002)

Byron Nelson (1912–2006)

Bobby Locke (1917–1987)

Arnold Palmer (b. 1929)

The golfers who riled Hitler

Peter Thomson (b. 1929)

Gary Player (b. 1935)

Bob Charles (b. 1936)

Jack Nicklaus (b. 1940)

Ray Floyd (b. 1942)

Tony Jacklin (b. 1944)

The greatest shot ever?

Tom Watson (b. 1949)

Ben Crenshaw (b. 1952)

Greg Norman (b. 1955)

Bernhard Langer (b. 1957)

A beginner’s guide to golf: 9. Some useful terms

Seve Ballesteros (b. 1957)

Nick Faldo (b. 1957)

A golfer’s farewell

Sandy Lyle (b. 1958)

Vijay Singh (b. 1963)

Ernie Els (b. 1969)

Grounds for divorce

Phil Mickelson (b. 1970)

Tiger Woods (b. 1975)

The four majors

CHAPTER SIX: Blame The Caddie

A low blow

Double trouble

Keeping busy

Seve’s apple

Pink on the greens

An eccentric industrialist

Honour where it’s due

A child caddie

Beasts of burden

This working life

The hippy bag man

The basics

A beginner’s guide to golf: 10. Laws of the green

The Ryder Cup

CHAPTER SEVEN: A Chapter Of Accidents

A hole in ten

Limping to victory

One in the eye

What a stupid!

Deadly hazards

Missing the fairway

Forms of address

CHAPTER EIGHT: Bad Manners

Illegal substances

Dirty cheats

Cheats of the trade

Terrible Tommy

Daly doses

A little too open

It‘s that man again!

Seeing a ghost

CHAPTER NINE: Literary Golfers

Writers on golf

Is a golfer a gentleman?

Sherlock Holmes returns

Shaken, not stirred

A thousand lost balls

A bad lie

Ten golf novels

The Oldest Member

The missing caddie

Noisy butterflies

Ten golf courses to play before you die

GOLF TIMELINE

GLOSSARY

End matter

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