Our Favorite Golf Books

Here at Historic Golf Endeavours, we've collected a library of over 300 books, few of them being instructional in nature. Quite a resource when we're doing research, or just picking up a good tome over our lunch hour.

But if we got kicked out of our office, and were told that we could only take an armful of books with us, which ones would be picked up? Based on that question, we've put together this list of the most used books in the library, and present it for your review. If your bookshelves contain these, you're in luck; if not, consider procuring them.

History

A History of Golf by Robert Browning

1995; available through the Classics of Golf

The Story of American Golf by Herbert Warren Wind

1975; ISBN 0-394-49020-7; available through the Classics of Golf

The Golf Majors Records & Yearbook, 1998 by Alun Evans

ISBN 1-85753-263-5; available through Amazon.Com

A History of the Bruntsfield Allied Golf Club 1856-1996 by Philip Knowles

1997; Available through Historic Golf Endeavours

Architecture

The World Atlas of Golf by Pat Ward Thomas, et al

1976; ISBN: 9990620474; Currently available as The New World Atlas of Golf through Amazon.Com

The Golf Course by Geoffrey S. Cornish and Ronald E. Whitten

1981; ISBN 0-8317-3947-9; available through the Classics of Golf

The Golf Courses of the British Isles by Bernard Darwin (Painted by Harry Rowntree)

1910; ISBN: 0940889269; available through the Classics of Golf

Golf Architecture by Dr. Alistair Mackenzie

1920; ISBN: 0940889161; available through the Classics of Golf

(Please note that this is not the newer book "Spirit of St. Andrews.)

The Links by Robert Hunter

1926; ISBN: 1886947511; available through the Classics of Golf

Rules of Golf

The New Rules of Golf Illustrated and Explained by Tom Watson with Frank Hannigan

1991; ISBN: 0686308360; available through Amazon.Com

Decisions on the Rules of Golf by the United States Golf Association (USGA);

available through Amazon.Com, or through the USGA where members receive a discount

Literature & Humor

The Clicking of Cuthbert by P.G. Wodehouse

1924; ISBN: 0940889102; available through the Classics of Golf

Following Through by Herbert Warren Wind

1985; ISBN 0-89919-398-6; Out of Print

Golf Is My Game by Robert Tyre (Bobby) Jones

1960; available through Flagstick Books

To The Linksland by Michael Bamburger

1992; ISBN: 0-670-84182-X

The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate

1970; ISBN: 094088903X; available through the Classics of Golf

The Education of a Golfer by Sam Snead with Al Stump

1962; Out of Print

Instruction

How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time by Tommy Armour

1953; ISBN: 0684813793

A Round of Golf With Tommy Armour

ISBN: 1558212175