Golf From Two Sides By Roger and Joyce Wethered is another classic golf book to add to your collection written by a very famous brother and sister golfing family. Between the two of them they won many amateur tournaments including the coverted British Amateur Championship.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 – What others think of it
Chapter 2 – Ladies Golf: Its strengths and weaknesses
Chapter 3 – Instructional – (i) Young Boys (ii) Late Beginners
Chapter 4 – Tee Shots: Particularly from the ladies point of view (i) The swing (ii) Some principles
Chapter 5 – Wooden club shots through the green
Chapter 6 – Iron approaches
Chapter 7 – Short approaches
Chapter 8 – On putting
Chapter 9 – Impressions of American golf
Chapter 10 – Girls and boys
Chapter 11 – Men versus ladies and mixed foursomes
Chapter 12 – Oxford golf since the war

Roger Wethered (3 January 1899–12 March 1983) was an English amateur golfer who was the brother of Joyce Wethered, one of the finest female golfers of the pre-war era.

Born in Surrey, Wethered was the only son of Herbert Newton Wethered and Marion Emmeline Lund. He was frequently ill as a child and this resulted in him being home-tutored. His father had authored numerous books about golf and this proved to be influential on Wethered as he took up golf from an early age.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Wethered

Wethered was called up in 1918 to serve in the Royal Artillery in World War I. However, he was recalled from France some weeks later as peacetime was declared. Upon his return he enrolled in Christ Church College at Oxford University. He joined the Oxford golf team with Cyril Tolley, a good friend of his, and both were successful young golfers. His game was defined by great power and technique with iron clubs. His driving was less accomplished but his ability to recover more than made up for this shortcoming.

Joyce Wethered, Lady Heathcoat-Amory (17 November 1901 in Surrey, England — 18 November 1997, London) was a golfer widely regarded as the greatest British woman player of all time.

Joyce and her brother Roger, who tied for the British Open title in 1921 but lost the play-off, learned the game as children. She won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship four times (1922, 1924, 1925, and 1929) and the English Ladies’ champion for five consecutive years (1920–24).

She married Sir John Heathcoat-Amory in 1924, and became Lady Heathcoat-Amory. Her play and swing were greatly admired by Bobby Jones, the American champion of the same era. Jones, who played several exhibition rounds with her, had a very high regard for her game. She essentially retired from competitive play by 1930.

She played most of her golf at (and was a member of) Worplesdon Golf Club in Surrey. She was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1975.

An exhibition of memorabilia can be seen at Knightshayes Court in Devon, where she lived.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Wethered

Great Swing Sequence of Roger Wethered at this website: http://hickorygolfers.com/swings/rwethered/rwdrive.htm

Great Swing Sequence of Roger Wethered at this website: http://hickorygolfers.com/swings/jwethered/jwdrive.htm

I really hope you enjoy this classic old golfing book by two of the best amateur golfers in Great Britain before World War Two.

Here’s the link to download your free copy of this great golfing book. Golf-From-Two-Sides-Wethered1922

Until next time,

Lawrie Montague

“So far as the instructional part of the book is concerned, I may say that, while I have had the needs of the novice constantly in mind, and have endeavoured to the best of my ability to put him on the right road to success, I have also presented the full fruits of my experience in regard to the fine points of the game, so that what I have written may be of advantage to improving golfers of all degrees of skill.” – Harry Vardon – The Complete Golfer

The complete golfer written by 6 time Open Champion Harry Vardon is a comprehensive book on golf with 393 pages that covers many facets of golf:

Chapter 1 – Golf At Home

Chapter 2 – Some Reminiscences

Chapter 3 – The Way to Golf

Chapter 4 – The Choice and Care of Clubs

Chapter 5 – Driving Preliminaries

Chapter 6 – The Swing of the Club

Chapter 7 – Brassie and Spoon

Chapter 8 – Special Strokes with Wooden Clubs

Chapter 9 – The Cleek and Driving Mashie

Chapter 10 – Play with the Iron

Chapter 11 – Approaching with the Mashie

Chapter 12 – On Being Bunkered

Chapter 13 – Simple Putting

Chapter 14 – Complicated Putts

Chapter 15 – Some General Hints

Chapter 16 – Competition Play

Chapter 17 – On Foursomes

Chapter 18 – Golf For Ladies

Chapter 19 – The Construction of Courses

Chapter 20 – Links I Have Played On

Chapter 21 – Golf In America

Chapter 22 – Concerning Caddies

Chapter 23 – Reflections and Recollections

Appendix – Rules of the Game

Harry Vardon (9 May 1870 – 20 March 1937) was a Jersey professional golfer and member of the fabled Great Triumvirate of the sport in his day, along with John Henry Taylor and James Braid.

He won The Open Championship a record six times and also won the U.S. Open.

In 1896, Vardon won the first of his record six Open Championships (a record that still stands today). In 1900, he became golf’s first international celebrity when he toured the United States, playing in more than 80 matches and capping it off with a victory in the U.S. Open. He was the joint runner-up of the 1913 U.S. Open, an event portrayed in the film The Greatest Game Ever Played. At the age of 50, Vardon was the runner-up at the 1920 U.S. Open.

During his career, Vardon won 62 golf tournaments, including one run of 14 in a row, still a record to this day. He won the German Open in 1911 and the British PGA Matchplay Championship in 1912. He popularized the grip that bears his name, one still used by over 90 percent of golfers.

In his later years, he became a golf course architect, designing several courses in Britain, Llandrindod Wells Golf Club, Woodhall Spa and Radcliffe-on-Trent being notable examples. Following a bout with tuberculosis, he struggled with health problems for years, but turned to coaching and writing golf instruction and inspirational books.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Vardon

Click on the following link and download the complete golfer by Harry Vardon published in 1905.  The-Complete-Golfer-Vardon1905

Enjoy reading one of the classic golfing books written by one of the legends of the game of golf.

Lawrie Montague – Golf Confidence Academy

Golf: A Royal and Ancient Game was published by Robert Clark a book publisher and well known golfer of his day.  He collected what was known about golf history in 1875, when golf was gaining popularity.

First editions of this book are extremely rare and very valuable fetching anywhere from five to ten thousand dollars for a good copy and even the 1975 reprint of the 1893 edition changes hands for quite a few dollars.

Clark was meticulous and reprinted much original documentation on ‘the golf’ in 43 chapters. The most interesting parts are the extracts of the minutes of the first hundred years of the five oldest Scottish golf clubs

·        Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers

·        Royal Burgess Golfing Society

·        Royal & Ancient Golfing Club of St Andrews

·        Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society

·        Royal Musselburgh Golfing Club

The book also contains the 1743 heroi-comical poem ‘The Goff’ featuring famous golfers of Leith.  There is also an historical account of golf and a large collection of golf related articles from contemporary magazines of the late 19^th Century. (Source: ScottishGolfHistory.net)

This is a wonderful book about golf in Scotland and definately worth reading. You can click on the following link to download a PDF version of this rare and magnificent book.

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Until next time,

Lawrie Montague

Ernest Jones (1887–1965) is renowned for his accomplishments in teaching many famous professional golfers as well as amateurs. He tutored Virginia Van Wie for many years, including during her stretch of three consecutive U.S. Women’s Amateur Championships from 1932–34. He also worked with Glenna Collett Vare, Lawson Little, Betty Hicks, Phil Farley, George Schniter, Horton Smith and other top players of the era.

His career included playing competitively on the European tour, head golf professional at several of America’s most esteemed golf clubs, and a career of teaching both tour professional and amateur golfers. In the years after World War II, he conducted his instruction indoors at the Spaulding Building in New York City.

He found that the could achieve better success with his students indoors because they would not be distracted by ball flight and instead focused on performing the swing correctly. Along with Harvey Penick, Tommy Armour, and Percy Boomer, he was inducted into the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame in 1977.

This excerpt is sourced from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Jones_%28golfer%29

This is an excellent golf instruction book which will give you an insight into a man who has had a major influence on the golf instruction community over the past eighty years.

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I am sure you’ll enjoy reading this book and using the information to help you play better golf.

Until next time,

Lawrie Montague

Andrew Lang (born March 13,  1844, Selkirk, Scotland – died July 20, 1912, Banchory, Kincardineshire) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a Scottish historian, translator, journalist, lecturer, biographer, poet, novelist,  literary critic, and contributor to anthropology.

He now is best known as having created one of the most important collections of folk and fairy tales in the world—his “color” fairy book series. Lang often collaborated with his wife, Leonore Blanche Alleyne, in adapting and translating the stories, which were taken from countries throughout the world.

He was also an avid golfer and fisherman, and he and Leonore traveled to France and Italy. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day.

Off My Game By Andrew Lang

“I’m of my game,” the golfer said,
And shook his locks in woe;
“My putter never lays me dead,
My drives will never go;
Howe’er I swing, howe’er I stand,
Results are still the same,
I’m in the burn, I’m in the sand -
I’m off my game!

“Oh, would that such mishaps might fall
On Laidlay or Macfie,
That they might toe or heel the ball,
And sclaff along like me!
Men hurry from me in the street,
And execrate my name,
Old partners shun me when we meet -
I’m off my game!

“Why is it that I play at all?
Let memory remind me
How once I smote upon my ball,
And bunkered it–BEHIND ME.
I mostly slice into the whins,
And my excuse is lame -
It cannot cover half my sins -
I’m off my game!

“I hate the sight of all my set,
I grow morose as Byron;
I never loved a brassey yet,
And now I hate an iron.
My cleek seems merely made to top,
My putting’s wild or tame;
It’s really time for me to stop -
I’m off my game!”

A Batch of Golfing Papers includes;

The Chelah’s Round, by Andrew Lang

Ballade of the Duffer, by W. Caine

The Caddies of St Andrews, by R. Whyte Gibson

and the Dictionary of Golf, by D. Irons.

Published in 1892 this classic work of golf literature by Andrew Lang will give your hours of reading pleasure.

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I know you will enjoy reading this golf book.

Until next time,

Lawrie Montague