Here is the blurb from the dust jacket:
Golf has been blessed with an incredibly rich and varied literature. Think of Bobby Jones's eloquent memoir Golf is My Game, Michael Murphy's mixture of whimsy and mysticism in Golf in the Kingdom, Dan Jenkins's The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate, or Bernard Darwin's classic history, Golf Between Two Wars. Or consider John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom contemplating a perfect five iron, James Bond's golf match with Goldfinger, Walker Percy's Will Barrett in the scarlet maples of Carolina, or Ford Madox Ford's Tietjens in the sandhills of Rye, alone in a landscape of rolling dunes and sea, under a hemisphere of sky.
Now, in The Impossible Art of Golf, Alec Morrison has culled some of the crown jewels of golf writing, from fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Virtually all the great writers on golf are here-Bernard Darwin, Charles Price, Herbert Warren Wind, Henry Longhurst, Al Barkow, Dan Jenkins, Michael Murphy, Lome Rubinstein, and many more. We read of the great players-such as Harry Vardon and J.H. Taylor, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, Babe Zaharias and Joyce Wethered-and the great contests, such as Walter Hagen versus Bobby Jones or Jack Nicklaus's epic battle with Tom Watson in the 1977 British Open, one of the greatest head-to-head duels ever played in major championship golf. Many of the pieces are by the golfers themselves, including excerpts from Gene Sarazen's Thirty Years of Championship Golf and from Bobby Jones's Down the Fairway and Golf is My Game. Morrison, recognizing that one of golf s attractions is its long, rich history, has also included pieces that capture a sense of the game as it was played in the past, ranging chronologically from Tobias Smolley's Humphrey Clinker (written in 1771), to Horace Hutchinson's Westward Ho! (1914), to Francis Ouimet's A Game of Golf (1933). And finally, to round out the collection, there are comic pieces by P.G. Wodehouse and Patrick Campbell (who lists the different types of strokes at a player's disposal, such as the Blacksmith's Convulsive or the Colonel's Up and Down), poetry by Grantland Rice ("Keep Your Eye on the Ball") and Sir John Betjeman ("Seaside Golf'), and contrlbutions by A.A. Milne, Siegfried Sassoon, and Alastair Cooke (who recounts his golfing nirvana when every shot was going right).
The Impossible Art of Golf is packed with many rare and marvelous pieces, illuminating the history and allure of this great game. Anyone who loves golf will find this anthology irresistible.
About the Editor: Alec Morrison has played enthusiastic if erratic golf from the age of six. A former Deputy Chairman of J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, he was Captain of Rye Golf Club in 1990.
Below is the blurb from the back cover:
Perfect for any golfer, this wide-ranging and entertaining anthology illuminates the history, the allure, the players, and the courses that make the game great, with entries by all the great golf writers and many pieces by the players themselves.
Al Barkow - Julian Barnes - John Betieman - Patrick Campbell Alastair Cooke - Bernard Darwin - Ian Fleming Ford Madox Ford George MacDonald Fraser - Walter Hagen A.P. Herbert Horace Hutchinson - Dan Jenkins - Bobby Jones - Henry Longhurst A.G. MacDonell - A.A. Milne Michael Murphy - Stephen Potter Charles Price - Frances Quimet Grantland Rice - Lorne Rubinstein Gene Sarazen - Siegfried Sassoon - Sam Snead - John Updike Pat Ward-Thomas - Herbert Warren Wind - PG. Wodehouse - and many more
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