Fifty Years of Golf

by Horace G. Hutchinson

CONTENTS

chap.		page
I	The Beginning of All Things	[11]
II	How Golf in England Grew	[17]
III	Of Young Tommy Morris and other Great Men	[23]
IV	The Spread of Golfing in England	[29]
V	The Weapons of Golf in the Seventies	[35]
VI	How Men of Westward Ho! went Adventuring in the North	[41]
VII	Golf at Oxford	[47]
VIII	The Start of the Oxford and Cambridge Golf Matches	[53]
IX	Golfing Pilgrimages	[59]
X	Westward Ho! Hoylake and St. Andrews in the Early Eighties	[65]
XI	First Days at St. Andrews	[71]
XII	The Beginnings of the Amateur Championship	[77]
XIII	On Golf Books and Golf Balls	[84]
XIV	The First Amateur Championship	[90]
XV	Mr. Arthur Balfour and his Influence in Golf	[96]
XVI	The Second Amateur Championship	[102]
XVII	The First Golf in America	[108]
XVIII	How I Lost the Championship and Played the Most Wonderful Shot in the World	[114]
XIX	Johnny Ball and Johnny Laidlay	[120]
XX	A Chapter of Odds and Ends	[126]
XXI	A More Liberal Policy at St. Andrews	[132]
XXII	The First Amateur Win of the Open Championship	[138]
XXIII	Golf on the Continent and in the Channel Islands	[144]
XXIV	About Harold Hilton, Freddy Tait and Others	[150]
XXV	The Coming of the Three Great Men	[156]
XXVI	The Revolt of the Amazons	[162]
XXVII	The Making of Inland Courses	[168]
XXVIII	Various Championships and the Wandering Societies	[174]
XXIX	The Comic Coming of the Haskell Ball	[180]
XXX	An Historic Match and an Historic Type	[186]
XXXI	The International Match	[192]
XXXII	How Mr. Justice Buckley kept his Eye on the Haskell Ball	[198]
XXXIII	The Amateur Championship of 1903	[204]
XXXIV	Travis's Year	[210]
XXXV	How Golf has Gripped America	[216]
XXXVI	The End of the Round	[223]

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