164: Favorite Golf Books

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No Laying Up

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Happy Thanksgiving! This week's episode features three people with a deep passion for golf writing: Jim Hartsell (@JimHHartsell), author of "The Secret Home of Golf: The Authorized History of King-Collins Golf and the Creation of Sweetens Cove"; Stephen Proctor (@SProctorGolf), author of "Monarch of the Green: Young Tom Morris, Pioneer of Modern Golf"; and Michael Wolf (@BamaBearcat), President of 288 Sports and an avid collector of rare golf books. These three join Randy to discuss their favorite 15 golf books of all time. So if you're looking for ideas on golf books to read, or shopping for a golf lover this holiday season, this episode is for you. Enjoy! 15 Favorite Golf Books Michael Wolf: The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses (Tom Doak) Famous Fairways (Peter Allen) To the Linksland (Michael Bamberger) Golf Between Two Wars (Bernard Darwin) The Essential Henry Longhurst (Henry Longhurst) The Story of American Golf (Herbert Warren Wind) Jenkins at the Majors (Dan Jenkins) The Captain (Geoff Shackelford) History of the R&A (3 volume set, multiple authors) The Spirit of St. Andrews (Alister MacKenzie) True Links (George Peper & Malcolm Campbell) An Awakening at Sleepy Hollow (Jon Cavalier & Jason Way) A Round of Golf with Tommy Armour (Tommy Armour) Harvey Penick's Little Red Book (Harvey Penick) A Love Affair with the Game (Sandy Tatum) A Golfer's Education (Darren Kilfara) Stephen Proctor: Playing the Like (Bernard Darwin) The Lay of the Land (Pat Ward-Thomas) To the Linksland (Michael Bamberger) Following Through (Herbert Warren Wind) Fifty Years of Golf (Andra Kirkaldy) Golf Between Two Wars (Bernard Darwin) The Match (Mark Frost) The Essential Henry Longhurst (Henry Longhurst) Down the Fairway (Bobby Jones) The Clicking of Cuthbert (PG Wodehouse) Golf Dreams (John Updike) St. Andrews in the Footsteps of Old Tom Morris (Roger McStravick) The Spirit of St. Andrews (Alister MacKenzie) The Story of American Golf (Herbert Warren Wind) The World Atlas of Golf (1st edition, multiple authors) Jim Hartsell: Scottish Golf and Golfers (SL McKinlay) Golf Dreams (John Updike) A Round of Golf Courses (Patric Dickinson) The Mystery of Golf (Arnold Haultain) Final Rounds (James Dodson) The Lay of the Land (Pat Ward-Thomas) Golf in My Gallowses (Angus McVicar) The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate (Dan Jenkins) The Spirit of St. Andrews (Alister MacKenzie) Blasted Heaths and Blessed Greens (James Finegan) Golf in the Kingdom (Michael Murphy) Following Through (Herbert Warren Wind) Hell's Golfer (Tom Morton) The Darwin Sketchbook (Bernard Darwin) To the Linksland (Michael Bamberger) Randy: Loopers (John Dunn) Men in Green (Michael Bamberger) Paper Tiger (Tom Coyne) Golf in the Kingdom (Michael Murphy) The Big Miss (Hank Haney) The Making of the Masters (David Owen) The Happy Golfer (Bernard Darwin) The Second Life of Tiger Woods (Michael Bamberger) Tales from Q-School (John Feinstein) A Season in Dornoch (Lorne Rubenstein) The Spirit of St. Andrews (Alister MacKenzie) To the Linksland (Michael Bamberger) Missing Links (Rick Reilly) A Course Called... (whole series by Tom Coyne) Preferred Lies (Andrew Greig) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Randy here.
0:01.2	Before we get into today's episode, I want to thank one of our sponsors,
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