I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.

And when I find my ball in a fried egg.

Fried egg. The dreaded fried egg.

Fried egg. Fried egg.

Fried egg. Fried egg.

Fried egg. Fried egg.

I'm about ready to run off the golf course.

Welcome to the Fried egg podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison.

And today we're talking about the great English golf boom.

My guest is Michael Morrison, a golf historian who just published a book of that very title, The Great English Golf Boom.

You can get a copy of your own by simply emailing him at mic.morrison57 at outlook.com.

The book covers a 50 year period between 1864 and 1914 when golf became very popular in England.

This was the first time that the game had really caught on anywhere outside of Scotland.

And I think it's such an interesting period because the kind of golf that was played in England

ended up being the kind of golf that was played many other places.

Now obviously golf is a Scottish invention.

But the way we play the game today owes just as much, I think, to how English people took it up in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

So let's just go straight to my interview with Michael Morrison.

So briefly, Michael, when you say the great English golf boom, the title of your book, what are you referring to?

Well, it covers the period essentially from when golf got started through until the first world war, 1914.

It was a very slow build up and perhaps we wouldn't today consider that to be a boom because it was barely detectable for about a quarter of a century.

But then in the second quarter of a century from 1890 to 1914, that's when golf really took off in England.

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