Coffee Table Book of: Golf (Paperback)

Coffee Table Book of: Golf is a large-format coffee table book of golf, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two: the old club and ball games, the links, the ball and the clubs, the tee, the green and the hole, the course in frost, snow and rain, and play seen from far off.

It opens with the old game: a heavy wooden club and a leather ball on the ice in winter, a long-nosed club against a grassy dune, a longbow and arrows beside an old club and a rolled parchment, a quill and a leather ball by lamplight.

Then the ball: a stitched leather featherie, the feathers, wet leather and iron rod that made one, a hammered gutta-percha ball and a ball cut in half to show its wound rubber thread.

Then the tee: a ball set on a cone of damp sand, a box of sand beside a teeing ground and wooden peg tees. Then the green and the hole: dew on a green at dawn, the white cup and the foot of the flagstick, a yellow flag against a pale blue sky, a hole cutter beside a fresh hole and long evening shadows on an empty green.

Then the course: a lone oak on a parkland fairway at dawn, heather and pines beside a heathland fairway, a rake on smooth bunker sand and a burn crossing a links fairway. Then weather and seasons: white frost at sunrise, fresh snow over a green, an open umbrella and an old canvas bag in steady rain and fallen yellow leaves round a ball.

Then practice, the bag, the glove and the caddie: balls scattered on an empty practice ground at dawn, a wire basket of balls on a hitting mat, an old canvas bag against a stone wall, a white leather glove and a caddie far off crossing a links.

Then the words of the game: a wagtail at the edge of a green, a golden eagle above a mountain fairway, a ball high in a pale sky and two balls, one blocking the other's line to the hole.

Short notes run through the book. They are about the game, its ball, clubs, course, rules, words and history rather than about the pictures: the order of 1457 by which the Scottish Parliament had golf and football cried down because they kept men from archery, the gutta-percha ball that came in around 1848 and cost far less than the featherie, the hole of four and a quarter inches across that the rules adopted in the early 1890s, and the stymie, a ball blocking another's line to the hole, which was ended in 1952.

Printed in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a paperback.

Publisher - Cedar Pine Editions

Language - English

Perfect Bound

Contributors

By author

Dimitri Smith

Published Date - 2026-10-22

ISBN - 9671456004877

Dimensions - 27.9 x 21.6 x 0.7 cm

Page Count - 102