Scotland's Gift: How America Discovered Golf

by Charles Blair Macdonald

First published in 1928, Macdonald's Scotland's Gift is arguably the most important book ever written on American golf. Macdonald elegantly chronicles how golf grew from being a little-known Scottish oddity with a mere handful of American courses in 1890 and spread like wild fire to some 4,000 courses by 1927.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Gaston Deveaux · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was a little disappointed by this book, as I was expecting more descriptions of the early championships in the U.S., and perhaps some more insight into the characters involved in the early game.
The book relied heavily on records from the early days of the U.S.G.A. and the Royal and Ancient, which is still interesting, but, being a golf fanatic, I was hoping for more golf, and more of the characters that played the game.
I did find the author's discussions about course design particularly fascinating. Very enjoyable.