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The Complete Golfer

by Harry Vardon

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  1. Preface

    3:48

  2. Golf at Home

    21:44

  3. Some Reminiscences

    31:29

  4. The Way to Golf

    23:55

  5. The Choice and Care of Clubs

    27:08

  6. Driving -- Preliminaries

    22:18

  7. Driving -- The Swing of the Club

    26:07

  8. Brassy and Spoon

    11:04

  9. Special Strokes with Wooden Clubs

    27:16

  10. The Cleek and Driving Mashie

    24:32

  11. Play with the Iron

    10:27

  12. Approaching with the Mashie

    24:02

  13. On Being Bunkered

    23:17

  14. Simple Putting

    23:15

  15. Complicated Putts

    17:36

  16. Some General Hints

    28:32

  17. Competition Play

    20:51

  18. On Foursomes

    17:24

  19. Golf for Ladies

    14:23

  20. The Construction of Courses

    23:52

  21. Links I Have Played On

    24:10

  22. Golf in America

    26:25

  23. Concerning Caddies

    25:59

  24. Reflections and Recollections

    18:44

  25. Appendix: The Rules of Golf

    28:42

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Harry Vardon was Open champion four times over and holder of the American title when Methuen published this in June 1905, and he writes with the plain authority of a man explaining how he does it. Twenty-three chapters cover the choice and care of clubs, the grip and the swing, play with the brassy, spoon, cleek and mashie, escaping bunkers, and the difference between a simple putt and a complicated one. Sixty-six illustrations, prepared from photographs of Vardon himself on the Totteridge links, show each position. He also takes up competition play, foursomes, golf for ladies, course construction and caddies, and folds in memoir: a Grouville boyhood in Jersey, his matches with Willie Park and J.H. Taylor, and a tour of America. The overlapping grip that carries his name is still the standard hold.

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Harry Vardon

Harry Vardon (1870-1937) was born at Grouville in Jersey, started out as a caddie on the local links, and became the dominant golfer of his generation. He won the Open Championship a record six times between 1896 and 1914 and took the U.S. Open in 1900 while touring the United States.

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First published
1905
Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
342
Language
English
Genre
Sports
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PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Cbteddy, Inkell, TriciaG and others