The dean of British golf writers, Bernard Darwin (1876-1961) is also regarded as one of the greatest sportswriters of all time. No less an authority than Herbert Warren Wind wrote:
[He] never tried to bowl his readers over with exhibitions of his brilliance or power, but his writing, modest and restrained as it is, has a quiet magic and a terrific staying power. Though never intended to be literature, it is.
An extensive 13-volume series of Darwin’s brilliant and incisive prose and commentary on the game he loved. Classics of Golf is proud to offer the finest collection of Bernard Darwin golf books ever assembled. Historic facts, biographic profiles and Darwin’s theoretical musings will be appreciated by the serious student or collector.
The series includes:
Golfing By-Paths (1946)
By Bernard Darwin
Green Memories (1928)
By Bernard Darwin
Mostly Golf – A Bernard Darwin Anthology (1976)
By Bernard Darwin, edited by Peter Ryde
Playing the Like (1934)
By Bernard Darwin
The Darwin Sketchbook (1991)
Edited by Robert S. Macdonald
The Game’s Afoot! An Anthology of Sports Games; the Open Air (1926)
Edited by Bernard Darwin
A History of Golf in Britain (1952)
Edited by Bernard Darwin
Golf (1954)
By Bernard Darwin
James Braid (1952)
By Bernard Darwin
Out of the Rough (1932)
By Bernard Darwin
The World that Fred Made (1955)
By Bernard Darwin
Three by Darwin (1902)
By Bernard Darwin