ILLUSTRATIONS[The writer, the first English Captain of the Royal and Ancient, buying back, according to custom, the ball struck off to win the Captaincy][Borough House, Northam][Mr. Peter Steel driving the gravel pit at Blackheath][At Pau: the oldest of non-Scottish Golf Clubs][Captain's Medal of the Royal North Devon Golf Club][The Ladies' Course at Pau, in the Days of the Crinoline][Miss Cecil Leitch][Westward Ho!][An Old Hoylake Group][An Old Westward Ho! Group][Thomas Owen Potter]["Old Tom"][Douglas Rolland and Archie Simpson][John Ball][A.F. Macfie][A.J. Balfour][Crawford][John Ball, as a Yeoman][J.E. Laidlay][The Chasm on the Old Biarritz Course][Arnaud Massy][J.E. Laidlay, John Ball, junr., Horace G. Hutchinson, and P.C. Anderson][H.H. Hilton][Freddy Tait][J.H. Taylor][Harry Vardon][James Braid][Horace Hutchinson and Leslie Balfour Melville][Amateur Championship, St. Andrews, 1901][Amateur Championship, St. Andrews, 1895][Old Leather Ball, etc.][Gutty v. Rubber Core][The Amateur and Professional Sides at Sandwich in 1894]["Fiery"][Walter Travis][Charles B. Macdonald]FIFTY YEARS OF GOLFCHAPTER I