Horace G Hutchinson

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British Golf Links A Short Account of the Leading Golf Links of the United Kingdom

Horace Gordon Hutchinson, London: Virtue 1897 [11589] small folio, gilt decorated green cloth, bevelled boards, art paper, frontispiece & illustrations, 331 pages + adverts.

The hinges are slightly tender and the spine has a half inch hole half way up, edges slightly rubbed, otherwise this is a bright copy and the contents are very clean.

A classic work written by the doyen of late Victorian golf, it is one of the cornerstones of the golfing library. Hutchinson was a prolific author and fine golfer in his own right, winning the Amateur Championship in 1886 and 1887. He was runner up in the unofficial tournament held in 1885, and again in 1903. He was the first English captain of the R&A and did much to pioneer early golf in England. This is Bernard Darwin’s testimonial of him: “Horace was so noteworthy a figure as a pioneer of golf that people are apt to forget his achievements as a player. Gifted with a style dashing and flamboyant rather than orthodox, which he innocently preached in his books, he was the master of every kind of difficult shot. He could sometimes miss the easy ones, but there was scarcely any place so bad but that his ingenuity could find a way out, and he could consummate a heart-breaking recovery by a deadly putt. From early life, he was handicapped by bad health, but well and in the mood, he was one of the great golfers”.