Just finished and on its way to the printers down south is the latest golf book that I’ve had the pleasure to produce. Social Links, by Cambridge-based Donald Cameron, reveals the origins and development of golf in Victorian England. The edition of 500 will be produced in two versions, 450 hardback and 50 leather, and will be launched in March 2010 in Cambridge.
It makes fascinating reading. I was quite amazed, for instance, by the number of golf clubs that were initiated by Scots doctors, clergymen, merchants, soldiers and naval officers who moved to or were based in England. With no golf courses down there, they would hit a ball about in a park or open heathland, catch the eye of a fellow golf-starved Scot, then form a club, basically!
