The Long Golden Afternoon: Golf's Age of Glory, 1864-1914

A history of golf's boom period from the founding of England's first golf club to the dawn of World War I.
The Long Golden Afternoon tells 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 t...