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Shortlisted for the2023SportsBookAwardsfor Best Sports Writing of the YearShortlisted for theUSGA Herbert Warren Wind Book AwardThe Long Golden Afternoontells the story of the transformative generation of golf that followed the rise of Young Tom Morris - an era of sweeping change that saw Scotland''s national pastime become one of the rare games played around the world.It begins with the first epochal performance after Tommy - John Ball''s victory at Prestwick in 1890 as the first Englishman and the first amateur to win the Open Championship - and continues through the outbreak of the Great War. If Tommy ignited the flame of golf in England, Ball''s breakthrough turned that smoldering fire into a conflagration.The generation that followed would witness the game''s coming of age. It would see an explosion in golf''s popularity, the invention of revolutionary new balls and clubs, the emergence of professional tours, the organization of the game and its rules, a renaissance in writing and

The Long Golden Afternoon

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Shortlisted for the2023SportsBookAwardsfor Best Sports Writing of the YearShortlisted for theUSGA Herbert Warren Wind Book AwardThe Long Golden Afternoontells the... Read more

    Publisher: Birlinn General
    Publication Date: 1/4/2024
    ISBN13: 9781913759100, 978-1913759100
    ISBN10: 1913759105

    Non Fiction , Sport

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    Shortlisted for the2023SportsBookAwardsfor Best Sports Writing of the YearShortlisted for theUSGA Herbert Warren Wind Book AwardThe Long Golden Afternoontells the story of the transformative generation of golf that followed the rise of Young Tom Morris - an era of sweeping change that saw Scotland''s national pastime become one of the rare games played around the world.It begins with the first epochal performance after Tommy - John Ball''s victory at Prestwick in 1890 as the first Englishman and the first amateur to win the Open Championship - and continues through the outbreak of the Great War. If Tommy ignited the flame of golf in England, Ball''s breakthrough turned that smoldering fire into a conflagration.The generation that followed would witness the game''s coming of age. It would see an explosion in golf''s popularity, the invention of revolutionary new balls and clubs, the emergence of professional tours, the organization of the game and its rules, a renaissance in writing and

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