The perfect gift or coffe table piece, this first volume of The Heritage Golf Reader presents a wide ranging sampling of verse, short stories, memorable quotes, and jokes about the beloved (and cursed!) game. Many famous writers are represented including the creators of Jay Gatsby, Sherlock Holmes, and Winnie the Pooh. The identity of many is unknown. Presented in this first volume of the set are stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Winter Dreams”, Sir P. G. Wodehouse, “The Clucking of Cuthbert” and “The Long Hole,” featuring the Oldest Member, Ring Lardner, “A Caddy’s Diary, and A. A. Milne, “Ten and Eight,” M. E. Bradshaw Isherwood’s “Hobson’s Choice,” and “The Great Professional” by Walter Camp and Lillian Brooks. The Fitzgerald story show clear antecedents to the Gatsby characters Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchannan, and Jordan Baker. A nonfiction contribution from 1904, “The Rubber Ball Controversy”, by A. H. Doleman, indicates arguments about the propriety of new equipment are not new. Sixty two poems include those by Lardner, Sir Arthur Conan Doyal, the legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice and the renowned course architect A. W. Tillinghast. There are poems inspired by James Whitcomb Riley’s “That Old Sweetheart of Mine” (“That Old Golf Club of Mine” by Henry Litchfield West) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s the “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (Rice’s “The Rime of the Ancient Golfer”). Many are golfer/writers better known for their accomplishments in other fields. These include the head of American Telephone & Telegraph (Angus S. Hibbard), the man who introduced the curveball to college baseball (Clinton Scollard), the editor of Harper’s Weekly and Life magazines, John Kendrick Banks, and father of modern American football and inventor of the forward pass, Walter Camp. Memorable observations include those by the writers William Wordsworth, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and John Updike. Memorable quotes from Hollywood include those from Dean Martin, Phyliss Diller, Will Rogers, Jack Lemon, and the singer Celine Dion. Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton are also among those quoted, as is the great one, Bobby Jones.
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