Golf in Britain

Golfers are renowned for their stories and are ever ready, especially at the nineteenth, to give their opinions on local and international champions. Not many, however, will have more than a rough idea about the social and historical background to golf. In this illustrated and lively accout Geoffrey Cousins, for over fifty years both been player and professional observer of the golf scene, traces the growth of the game from its small beginnings in fifteenth-century Scotland to its present day status as a widely enjoyed and massive financed sport.