1900 How To Play Golf by H.J. Whigham 6th Edition
This 1900 6th edition of the 1897 publication 'How to Play Golf' is illustrated is complete with action photographs throughout. The book has its original decorative dark blue cloth, lettered in golden-yellow, original dark blue endpapers. This was the first book of golf instruction published in America and contained the first "action photos" of golf. Whigham was a graduate of Oxford and later US Amateur champion for two years, and the son-in-law of C.B. MacDonald to whom he dedicates the book to. This copy grades in good condition with wear and water marks as shown.
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