Parkstone Golf Club. Official Handbook.
Derby: New Centurion Publicity Co. Ltd., 1954. 30p. wrappers blue text green covers. Attractive handbook. Near fine. More
Handbooks
Club handbooks published in the United Kingdom.
Given out to potential new members or current members. Well known authors have written many of these booklets, Bernard Darwin, Robert Browning, Henry Longhurst, Tom Scott to name but a few. Multiple editions are often found from the same club, with updated information often of the club committee and fees. Most pre 1940 handbooks are clearly dated, post 1946 are usually not making them always in date. They make for great reading the hole by hole descriptions and often short club history. A challange to collect as many would have been disguarded.
Ashburnham Golf Club
Ashburnham: Privately printed, 1994. Centenary Celebration programme, brief history of the club in English and in Welsh. 8 pages. Unusual. More
Burnham Beaches Golf Club Official Handbook.
London: Temple Publicity Co. Ltd., 1950. 16p. wrappers green text, beige cover. Attractive handbook. Near fine. More
Royal Cromer Golf Club. Official Handbook.
Corsham: Golf Marketing, ca 1975. 20p. wrappers blue text, white cover, photograph. Attractive handbook. Near fine. More
Pitlochry Golf Course. Official Handbook.
Cheltenham: J. Burrow Co. Ltd., 1979. 20p. wrappers black text, yellow cover. Attractive handbook. Near fine. More
Royal North Devon Golf Club. Official Handbook.
Bristol: E.G. Brown, ca 1965. 12p. wrappers, white text, blue cover, photograph. Attractive handbook. Near fine. More
Hillside Golf Club Official Handbook.
Derby: New Centurion Publicity Co. Ltd., ca 1955. 44p. wrappers red text green covers. Attractive handbook. Prestigious course set in the middle of the Southport courses. Near fine. More
Royal Musselburgh Golf Club. Official Handbook
England: Golf Clubs Association, ca 1950. 23p, beige wrappers, black text. Course laid out by James Braid. More
Church Stretton Golf Club
Shropshire, England: The Golf Clubs Association. 1929. 24p. Wrappers, Beige cover, navy text. Spectacular rather hilly Course. not in D&J. More
The Golf Clubs Round Largo Bay. Innerleven, Leven, Leven Thistle, Lundin, Wemyss, Methil, Leven Ladies', and Lundin Ladies (stunning condition!)
Leven: Purves & Cunningham, 1909. 146p. wrappers. Scarce title, Illustrations from photographs; plan of Lundin Golf Course. 7x4½. Important and unheralded history. Songs of the Innerleven Golf Links reproduced. History's of Leven, Innerleven, Dubbieside, Lundin, Methill, Lundin Ladies.. all early Fife clubs instrumental in the growth of golf in the..... More
The Golf Clubs Round Largo Bay. Innerleven, Leven, Leven Thistle, Lundin, Wemyss, Methil, Leven Ladies', and Lundin Ladies
Leven: Purves & Cunningham, 1909. 146p. cloth. Illustrations from photographs; plan of Lundin Golf Course. 7x4½. First Edition. The scarce book on Largo Bay golf clubs. Very scarce cloth edition, first time we have seen a cloth edition normally wrappers. More
Royal Singapore Golf Club
Singapore: Privately published, 1957. 31p. cream wrappers + club crest. Unusual club handbook/history. The club was given Royal. More
The Golfer´s Handbook.
Edinburgh: The Golfer´s Handbook, 1927. 891p 29h edition. This is the longest running and yearbook publication, a treasure chest of information. This is the first year of the larger format the 1926 issue had 1335p. Hard to find edition. D&J G24900. More
The Game of Golf in East Africa.
Nairobi: W. Boyd and Company, 1953. 288 pp. Illustrated from photographs and advertisements. Red cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt. First Edition. A rare (and likely the only) title of golf history in Kenya and expatriate in the colonies, with detailed records and biographies. According to Murdoch, the author apparently..... More
Malone Golf Club
Belfast: Privately printed, 1962. 20p. white wrapper, black text. Belfast club. More
Stanmore Golf Club, Official Handbook
England: The Golf Clubs Association. ca 1960. 12p, Green wrappers, red text. Very fine golf course. More
Royal Lytham and St. Annes Golf Club.
England: The Golf Clubs Association, 1950. 35p, illustrated wrappers. Green covers blue text. More
The Royal North Devon Golf Club.
London: Burr Publicity, 1970. 28p. Beautifully described. More
Hunstanton Golf Club
England: The Golf Clubs Association. ca 1965. 32p. photo & white wrappers with red text. folding. map,ca. 1965. More
Church Stretton Golf Club
Shropshire, England: The Golf Clubs Association. 1934. 20p. Beige cover, navy text. Spectacular rather hilly Course. not in D&J. More
Ganton Golf Club.
England: The Golf Clubs Association. ca 1955. ca. 1955, 40pp. folding map Magnificent Yorkshire course the host to many Championships. not in D&J. More
The Royal Birkdale Golf Club Golf Club
England: The New Centurion Publishing, 1953-4. 50p. beige wrappers with dark green text. Nice handbook. Royal Birkdale had only been Royal for 2 years as this booklet was produced. Not listed in D&J. More
Parkstone Golf Club.
England: E.G. Brown, ca 1960. 40p wrappers, green wrappers with red text. Nice photograph of Peter and Alec Alliss. More
The Strawberry Hill Golf Club
England: The Golf Clubs Association. ca 1950. 20p. wrappers.beige wrappers with brown text. 3 pages of the clubs history. D&J B28240. More
Sandy Lodge Golf Club
England: The Golf Clubs Association. ca 1960. 32p blue wrappers, silver text. Home of three Walker Cup Captains, T.A. Tottance, G.A. Hill, and P.B. Lucas. Former professionals include Arthur Havers, Eric Brown and John Jacobs. More