The Mystery of Golf

Author: Arnold Haultain
ISBN: 0-285-63616-2
RRP: £12.99
Souvenir Press
43 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3PD
Tel: 020 7580 9307

A timeless classic beautifully produced, a gift book that all lovers of golf will treasure.

Written in 1908 by a Canadian belletrist who fancied himself a golfer, this classic treatise explores man's age-old love affair with golf - and pronounces it incurable. Just as a careful player sizes up a putt from all possible angles, so does Haultain examine this curious game, from the physiology of the perfect swing, to the psychology of a sport in which the opponent is oneself, to

the peculiar brand of spirituality that leads people around eighteen holes with the promise of nothing more than "almost". The Mystery of Golf may not help shave strokes off your game, but its delightful meditations on why we care so much make for, as Herbert Warren Wind put it, "pure, evergreen entertainment."