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by Walter Stephen (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 317 pages
  • Publisher: Luath Press Ltd; illustrated edition edition (1 Jul 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1905222211
  • ISBN-13: 978-1905222216
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 14.4 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 435,983 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Stephen is excellent at recreating the world in which the great Scotsman lived... There are weird but entertaining wanders along the lanes of golf in literature, the horrors of slow play, and the philosophy of the game." THE HERALD


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In the 19th century Musselburgh was a hotbed of golfing genius and the local links produced five Open Champions. One of these was Willie Park Junior. More than a good golfer, he redefined the image of the golf professional and took the game from being an esoteric pastime to its present status as a world game. As well as winning the Open in 1887 and 1889, Willie played challenge and demonstration matches at home, in Europe and in North America. His workshops turned out golf balls and clubs to his own design and he had retail outlets in Edinburgh, Manchester, London, New York and Montreal. He designed and laid out over 100 golf courses in the British Isles and Western Europe. When he published "The Game of Golf" in 1896 it was the first book on the game written by a professional. World War I killed off Willie's activities at home, so he moved across the Atlantic. Concentrating on course design he engineered over 40 courses in the US and 20 in Canada. Willie Park was the epitome of Scottish Victorian enterprise. Though not alone, he was the most active of missionaries, taking the skills and equipment of a local game to what were then the two major continents.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Comments from a Scottish Golfer, 20 Dec 2005
By Derek J Cran (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
I would recommend this book to anyone who would like to learn about how golf developed in Scotland. It is well researched and broken down into two main parts. 'The Life' and 'The Legacy.'

In 1457 the game was so popular that King James the second of Scotland had to ban it on a Sunday because it was interfering with archery practice. The book looks at the start of golf in Scotland and explains the main reasons why it took until almost the end of the 19th century for the game to start to spread throughout Scotland and to other parts of the world.

The first section covers far more than Willie Park Junior's life as it also gives a synopsis of the history of golf as well as detailing the role Willie Park Junior played in developing the game and encouraging the public outside the main golfing strongholds to play and watch it.

Having started playing golf in 1950 with a set of 1920's ladies clubs, light enough for a young lad, the book made me realise that while I was familiar with and understood most of the golfing terminology used by Willie Park Junior I knew very little about him or his contemporaries. I am indebted to the author for filling this void in such a stimulating way.

In the second section of the book Mr Stephen describes how he played on many of the courses planned by Willie Park Junior and compares the present day courses with the original layouts. His descriptions help the reader to understand why golf courses have had to change over the years as technology improved.

While this book is crammed with facts it is also interesting, entertaining and thought provoking. After reading this fascinating account of how the game developed it left me trying to decide if golf is easier and more fun now that we play on pristine fairways with superbly designed clubs and balls. Are today's golfers more skilful? Was Willie Park Junior the man who took golf to the world?

Every reader has to make up their own mind but I would love to have been able to play on the early courses and face the challenges set by Willie Park Junior. I would be even more interested to see how today's professionals would have coped with the clubs, balls and courses of the early 1900's.

There is no doubt that Willie Park Junior was one of the first all round professionals who used his great skill as a golfer and course designer to take golf to the world.

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4.0 out of 5 stars 'Wilie Park Junior' by Walter Stephen, 18 Nov 2005
I highly recommend this book on Willie Park Junior - so rightly subtitled by Walter Stephen: ‘The man who took Golf to the World’. In its two categories, ‘The life’ and ‘The legacy’, the book treats us to Open Championships and wonderful characters; to golf courses in Britain, Europe and America; and to golfing manuals. So much owes its existence in one way or another to this exceptional man.
Also lovingly embraced is the development of golf in Musselburgh and the southern coastline of the Forth estuary, as against the more usual track of what happened at St. Andrews and along the north coast of the Firth. Highlighted are the five Open champions who came from the ‘Honest Toun’.
These interesting and unusual developments are not all you get, however. This G.M.A. (Golfer of Modest Attainment) as Walter Stephen describes himself, gives much, much more. In tune with Willie Park’s motto ‘Far and Sure’ – we are provided with fascinating and far-reaching material, sound analyses, and little known details. We have literary quotes from Tobias Smollett; extracts from P.G. Wodehouse and John Updike; and (among other historical snippets) we follow the Scots Guards and the Peninsular War of 1812-14.
The courses are examined in detail, picking out Willie Park Junior’s distinctive design; and we are provided with a wealth of information on the feats and foibles of worthy contemporaries, including those of some golfing greats who faced Willie in competition.
The material is always presented with a quirky sense of humour - flowers, shrubs and bushes, steep approaches, rainy days - are all amusingly depicted. All is finished off with excellent illustrations, none better than that of the incredible ‘Pandy Bunker’ at Musselburgh, which decorates the book-jacket.

18 November 2005

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4.0 out of 5 stars Comments from the United States, 12 Nov 2005
By Walter Stephen (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
'We received the book yesterday and are vying with each other as to who gets to read it through first! However, I have dipped into it and it is splendid'. (Barbara Lindsley, Maine)
'Your book is a delight. First, I went to the back index and read all the things that attracted my eye. Then I began from page 1 and am going through it fast. You have an admirable command of your subject and yet you avoid becoming flip or too familiar. I heartily commend you for what you have produced. Cheers!' (Elliott Lindsley, Maine)

'I received the book yesterday and immediately sat down to read. Although I am only half way through, I wanted to congratulate you on your accomplishment. The book brings together so many dangling pieces of the Willie Park story into one volume, and does it in a most interesting style'.
(J Wendenhof, Michigan)

'The book looks terrific! You should submit it to the USGA for their annual book award' (Karen Bednarski, Florida)

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4.0 out of 5 stars From The (Glasgow) Herald
In his review in The Herald, Alan Taylor summed up -

A book that is as quirky, idiosyncratic, frustrating and ultimately as fascinating as the game itself.

Published on 11 Nov 2005 by Walter Stephen

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Mungo Park, grand-nephew of Willie Park, has written this review for the journal of the British Golf Collectors' Society:
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