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GOLF IN BRITAIN: A SOCIAL HISTORY FORM THE BEGINNINGS TO THE PRESENT DAY

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In this well illustrated volume published in 1975, Cousins attempts to trace the history of golf from the fifteenth century to the professional and well financed game of the late 20th Century.

8vo. 176pp.12 pages of photographs. Dust-wrapper, good.