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'50 Years of Golf' - by Horace G. Hutchinson - 1919
Published in London and New York: Country Life/George Newnes and Charles Scribners Sons, 1919. 229pp. plus 16pp. Country Life catalogue at the back. Gilt lettering to backstrip, and 35 black-and-white plates from photographs, paintings and drawings. First edition. Hutchinson was an accomplished golfer who won the first two official British Amateur Championships in 1886 and 1887, and he was also a writer. This collection comprises one of the first accounts of the birth and explosive growth of golf in the UK and the USA. He is perhaps only equaled by Bernard Darwin as a golf historian across half a century