British Golf Links
By Horace Hutchinson

This, the first-ever golf coffee-table book, set a standard that many say has never been equaled. As golf exploded onto the sporting scene worldwide, noted amateur golfer and acclaimed writer Horace Hutchinson set out to chronicle the great courses of the home of golf-Great Britain. He profiles more than fifty courses, many of them golf's most legendary venues, utilizing historical accounts and information provided by various club secretaries. Each chapter contains extensive historical information, hole descriptions, yardages, and general hints on playing. This in itself is significant, but it is the amazing collection of early photographs, faithfully reproduced, that makes British Golf Links truly unique.

Original copies are nearly impossible to find and can cost thousands of dollars. This rare book, the cornerstone of every major golf library, is finally within reach in this reprint edition as part of the Sports Media Group's Rare Book Collection. British Golf Links shows readers just how much has changed in golf and, more importantly, how much has not!

Hardcover 9.625 x 12.625"
368 pages
ISBN: 1-58726-008-5
$85.00
Available 4/1/05

Welcome to the Rare Book Collection, a unique compilation of golfing history proudly presented by Sports Media Group. The goal of the Rare Book Collection is a simple one: To provide, at affordable prices, quality reprints of coveted golf volumes that, through scarcity or prohibitive cost, have heretofore lay beyond the reach of many readers. Our upcoming list of titles is uncommonly broad, its authors representing a veritable Who’s Who from the game’s long and storied past. It features many acknowledged classics but also a variety of hidden gems, overlooked or forgotten works every bit as interesting to mainstream readers as they are to serious collectors. Above all, it is our purpose to revive these great works at an attractive price, making the game’s greatest—and rarest—titles available at a cost affordable to readers worldwide. We invite you join with us as we revisit some of golf’s greatest literary treasures.

Golf from the Times
By Bernard Darwin

Bernard Darwin is one of the most revered golf writers of all time. This early collection of his best essays—from the London Times —paints a unique historical picture of golf as it was exploding onto the sporting scene around the world.

ISBN 1-58726-175-8
Retail $22.95
5.25x8.375
152 pages

A Game of Golf
By Francis Ouimet

In this engaging memoir Ouimet fondly reminisces about his life in golf and gives sage advice on playing the game. With charm, wit, and a passion for the sport, he vividly chronicles his boyhood in Brookline, recalling how he scavenged for golf balls and clubs, learned to play on a homemade three-hole course in his backyard, and sometimes sneaked onto The Country Club's fairways to practice in the early morning hours. He recounts his caddying years, starting at age nine, the early amateur competitions, and the momentous 1913 U.S. Open tournament on his neighborhood course. Ouimet's narrative then journeys through his illustrious amateur career, over the fairways of Hoylake, St. Andrews, Garden City, and Pebble Beach, and concludes with his great sentimental victory in the 1931 U.S. National Amateur at Beverly Hills in Chicago.

ISBN 1-58726-177-4
Retail $24.95
5.5x8.5 hardcover
336 pages