The Story of American Golf: Its Champions and Its Championships.

First Edition of "the definitive account of American Golf" The Story of American Golf

The Story of American Golf: Its Champions and Its Championships.

WIND, Herbert Warren.

Item Number: 140549

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Company, 1948.

First edition of one of the greatest works on American golf, published in the 20th century. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Near fine in a good dust jacket with chips to the spine and front panel.

The Story of American Golf is regarded as the definitive account ever published of professional and amateur men's and women's golf in America. From John Reid, the man who introduced the game to this country with three holes carved out of a cow pasture on his New York estate in 1888, to Francis Ouimet's memorable victory in the 1913 U.S. Open, to Bobby Jones' "impregnable quadrilateral" in 1930, to the dawn of the era of Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, and Ben Hogan.

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