A Hoylake Celebration: Royal Liverpool Golf Club, 1869-2019 By Blythe Bell. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE.
A Hoylake Celebration: Royal Liverpool Golf Club, 1869-2019 By Blythe Bell. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, with gift inscription to previous owner.
Publisher: Saint Andrews Golf Press, 2019, UK, First Edition. VERY SCARCE.
Very good hardback. Blue cloth boards have some marks. Pages excellent. Review by Jim Davis:
If Scotland s St Andrews is the sacred land of golf s origins, we must surely place England s Hoylake and the Royal Liverpool Golf Club as an undisputed monarch of the game s rich history. From its beginning in 1869, the course and club have produced a seeming endless string of champions as well as memorable and historic matches the first Amateur Championship (1885), the first international match (England v. Scotland 1902); the first international match between Great Britain and the U.S. (The Walker Cup, 1921). In fact, Hoylake set the tone and the rules for the status of amateur golf. The golfers most closely associated with this English seaside links on the River Dee are a champions roster the envy of any club in the world Harold Hilton, Jack Graham (the first amateur champion), John Ball, Bobby Jones, Arnaud Massy, Walter Hagen, Peter Thomson, Tiger Woods, and Rory McIlroy. Bernard Darwin called the challenging links a …breeder of mighty champions. The great writer, acquainted with the course early in the 20th century, noted both its historic traditions and its value as a test of links golf where …the golfing pilgrim is emphatically on classic ground. He would write of Hoylake on many occasions, always with affection and awe. The latest to write of Hoylake are Messieurs Blyth Bell and Roger Greenway, in a volume as distinctive as the course they celebrate. A Hoylake Celebration, Royal Liverpool Golf Club 1869-2019 is beautifully wrought, the club s 150 years brought to life in a stunning production by noted designer Chic Harper, whose 12 golf titles include St Andrews in the Footsteps of Old Tom Morris (2015).
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