A Golfers Library
Since the second episode of the show I have asked almost all of my guests to recommend 2 books to augment listeners libraries, please find a summary of all recommendations below:
Episode 2: Mike Clayton
The Spirit of St Andrews - Dr. Alister MacKenzie
Grounds for Golf - Geoff Shackleford
The Eternal Summer - Curt Sampson
Episode 3: Mat Goggin
The Architectural Side of Golf - H.N Wethered & Tom Simpson
Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Taleb
Episode 4: Bradley S. Klein
The Mystery of Golf - Arnaud Haultain
Episode 6: Richard Pennell
The Marvellous Mania - Alistair Cooke on Golf
The Anatomy of a Golf Course - Tom Doak
Episode 7: Roger McStravick
Tom Morris of St. Andrews - The Colossus of Golf - 1821 - 1908, David Malcolm & Peter Crabtree
The Monarch of the Green - Stephen Proctor
Golf, Scotland’s Game - David Hamilton
My Fifty Years of Golf: My Memories, Andrew (Andra) Kirkaldy
Reminiscences of Golf on St. Andrews Links, James Balfour
Episode 9: Sandy Jamieson
The Golf Courses of Mick Morcom, Toby Cumming
Swing the Clubhead, Ernest Jones
Episode 10: Michael Goldstein
The Spirit of St Andrews - Dr. Alister MacKenzie
Golf in the Kingdom, Michael Murphy
Episode 11: George Waters
Golf Courses of the British Isles, Bernard Darwin
Golf Architecture in America, George Thomas
Episode 12: Stephen Proctor
Tom Morris of St. Andrews - The Colossus of Golf - 1821 - 1908, David Malcolm & Peter Crabtree
Playing the Like, Bernard Darwin
Episode 13: Nick Edmund
Clicking of Cuthbert, P.G. Woodhouse
Episode 14: Mike Cocking
The Anatomy of a Golf Course - Tom Doak
Alister MacKenzie’s Cypress Point Club
Episode 15: Adam Lawrence
Golf Courses of the British Isles, Bernard Darwin
Episode 16: Adrian Logue
Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman
Episode 17: Matt Mollica
The Anatomy of a Golf Course - Tom Doak
The Spirit of St Andrews - Dr. Alister MacKenzie
Episode 18: Professor Paul Rouse
The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Sport & the British, Richard Holt
Episode 19: Andrew Thomson
The Long Golden Afternoon - Stephen Proctor
A Life in Golf - Peter Thomson with Steve Perkin
Hopefully the list above may have inspired you to augment your golf library.
Happy reading
Shane
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Thank you for this Shane. Some excellent ideas here of books I've not yet read. Don't tell anyone!