CONTENTS

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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


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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