Trap Draw Golf books pod

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Shout out to Big Randy for pulling together Jim Hartsell, Stephen Proctor and Michael Wolf to discuss their favorite golf books. It was incredibly informative. I bought a few books on Amazon thanks to the pod. If you have a love of golf history and books, please give it a listen! Cheers “Big!”

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And here’s the whole list of choices in case anyone was looking for that (:beers: Randy for adding that to the show notes):

Michael Wolf:

  • The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses (Tom Doak)
  • Famous Fairways (Peter Allen)
  • To the Linksland (Michael Bamberger)
  • Golf Between Two Wars (Bernard Darwin)
  • The Essential Henry Longhurst (Henry Longhurst)
  • The Story of American Golf (Herbert Warren Wind)
  • Jenkins at the Majors (Dan Jenkins)
  • The Captain (Geoff Shackelford)
  • History of the R&A (3 volume set, multiple authors)
  • The Spirit of St. Andrews (Alister MacKenzie)
  • True Links (George Peper & Malcolm Campbell)
  • An Awakening at Sleepy Hollow (Jon Cavalier & Jason Way)
  • A Round of Golf with Tommy Armour (Tommy Armour)
  • Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book (Harvey Penick)
  • A Love Affair with the Game (Sandy Tatum)
  • A Golfer’s Education (Darren Kilfara)

Stephen Proctor:

  • Playing the Like (Bernard Darwin)
  • The Lay of the Land (Pat Ward-Thomas)
  • To the Linksland (Michael Bamberger)
  • Following Through (Herbert Warren Wind)
  • Fifty Years of Golf (Andra Kirkaldy)
  • Golf Between Two Wars (Bernard Darwin)
  • The Match (Mark Frost)
  • The Essential Henry Longhurst (Henry Longhurst)
  • Down the Fairway (Bobby Jones)
  • The Clicking of Cuthbert (PG Wodehouse)
  • Golf Dreams (John Updike)
  • St. Andrews in the Footsteps of Old Tom Morris (Roger McStravick)
  • The Spirit of St. Andrews (Alister MacKenzie)
  • The Story of American Golf (Herbert Warren Wind)
  • The World Atlas of Golf (1st edition, multiple authors)

Jim Hartsell:

  • Scottish Golf and Golfers (SL McKinlay)
  • Golf Dreams (John Updike)
  • A Round of Golf Courses (Patric Dickinson)
  • The Mystery of Golf (Arnold Haultain)
  • Final Rounds (James Dodson)
  • The Lay of the Land (Pat Ward-Thomas)
  • Golf in My Gallowses (Angus McVicar)
  • The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate (Dan Jenkins)
  • The Spirit of St. Andrews (Alister MacKenzie)
  • Blasted Heaths and Blessed Greens (James Finegan)
  • Golf in the Kingdom (Michael Murphy)
  • Following Through (Herbert Warren Wind)
  • Hell’s Golfer (Tom Morton)
  • The Darwin Sketchbook (Bernard Darwin)
  • To the Linksland (Michael Bamberger)

Randy:

  • Loopers (John Dunn)
  • Men in Green (Michael Bamberger)
  • Paper Tiger (Tom Coyne)
  • Golf in the Kingdom (Michael Murphy)
  • The Big Miss (Hank Haney)
  • The Making of the Masters (David Owen)
  • The Happy Golfer (Bernard Darwin)
  • The Second Life of Tiger Woods (Michael Bamberger)
  • Tales from Q-School (John Feinstein)
  • A Season in Dornoch (Lorne Rubenstein)
  • The Spirit of St. Andrews (Alister MacKenzie)
  • To the Linksland (Michael Bamberger)
  • Missing Links (Rick Reilly)
  • A Course Called… (whole series by Tom Coyne)
  • Preferred Lies (Andrew Greig)
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That was so much fun to do. We could’ve kept going for another 2 hours.

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I did a screen shot of the lists but this is way easier. Thanks for posting! I’ve got a lot of reading to do!

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Wish you had kept going Jim!

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Thanks for compiling this list, looking forward to working through several of these!

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A great podcast. I have saved this one in my App and will definitely be listening to it again. Thanks for the list; very helpful.

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Great pod, really enjoyed it.

Shout out for a longer list BamaBearcat shared in the Nest previously. I have been making my way through some of these.

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It was a great podcast. Listen to it on our drive to Michigan…I kept telling my wife. “That would be a good gift….that would be a good gift”

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Hey Jim, just ordered your book. Meant to do it after your first pod u did with Randy. The recent book pod reminded me. Looking forward to read it and getting down there at some point.

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Loved this pod and it was perfect timing for me. Over the past couple of years I started to find a love of reading, through golf books, which I never really had before. While To The Linksland, A Course Called Ireland, The Match and a couple others spoke to my soul, I was still wondering what else was out there. With this list, and the endless roads they can lead me down, I am now set up for a lifetime of stories that will provoke thoughts, feelings, dreams and connection.

Also I might be ready to declare @Randy and @SCGC5th my spiritual sherpas

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Thank you for the kind words. I have a feeling we will do a Volume 2 of this at some point in the future. The response has been great.

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If folks are interested in knocking one of the selected from their reading lists, we’re reading Golf Dreams by John Updike for next book club

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What’s the best place to buy Confidential Guide by Doak. Ebay?

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Yes, for one of the originals. The price for even a second edition can be pretty steep.

Here for the “modern” versions: The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses | Golf by Tom Doak | Golf Books.

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To The Linksland has been on my radar for a while but with it out of print haven’t picked it up. I showed it to my son in October as a Christmas gift idea, but he’s 20 and likely didn’t pick it up when I pointed it out.

Told my mom about it this week, and told her to check with my son first. She had a look and they are unavailable on Amazon, and she found another copy for$500. Was told she loves me but not that much!

Is this a Trap Draw bump for the book @Randy ?

I’m hoping they maybe do another print run. I look for it in every used bookstore I go into but no luck. Can’t get my hands on the damn thing.

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Unfortunately, not a podcast bump. Tried to buy a copy last year after a few people here recommended it and ran into the same issue. Did you check your local library? That is where I ended up finding it.

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Keep your eyes peeled on eBay, they pop up

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Anybody know a place to find The Spirit of St Andrews for less than the $65 folks want on ebay? Also, it seems there was a run in 1995 and 1998 - any difference?

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Thriftbooks is where I get most of my stuff. You can put it on a watch list and they’ll email you when they get any in.

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