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'Carry your bag, Sir?'
Author: David I.Stirk
This book explores the colourful history of caddies, men, boys and some girls who earned their meagre living on the golf courses of the past, carrying clubs for the great and mighty, the chronic incompetent, and all sorts of players in between. This entertaining book is full of anecdotes and pictures which will delight thousands of golfers and non-players alike. It is a classic record of the exploits of a vanished breed.
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Golf - History and Tradition 1500-1945
Author: David I.Stirk
Distinguished golf historian, David Stirk, attempts the awesome task of chronicling the origins of the game of golf, and the growth of golfing traditions down the ages. With some 300 illustrations, no-one who truly loves the game of golf will wish to be without this thoroughgoing survey of its origins and traditions, whether to browse in, to read, or to use as an invaluable work of reference.
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Golf in the Making
Author: Ian T.Henderson and David I.Stirk
The first complete history ever to be published on the evolution of golf. It is illustrated throughout with 400 reproductions of paintings, prints, cartoons, drawings and photographs depicting the leading personalities involved in the history of the game - ballmakers, clubmakers, golfers - and the clubs which they developed or used. The story is taken up to 1914.
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Golf: The Great Clubmakers
Author: David.I.Stirk
In the days before mass-production the manufacture of golf clubs was carried out by a few Scottish craftsmen. Some of these were so skilled that the clubs they made were treasured and preserved, to survive to this day. David Stirk has provided a history of the old golf club makers and their craft, illustrated with fine examples. This is a book for all collectors and golf enthusiasts who want to know more about the origins of the great game.