Books

Authors have been documenting the evolution of Womens golf since, 1899, when Our lady of the Green was first published, with an introduction from Issette Pearson, founder of the Ladies Golf Union in 1893, and has been recognised as an important historical work by scholars, see google books quote below, where it now available free to download and read HERE

Google quote “This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.”

Since then, there have been many books written, some like “A Shot a hole” by Pam Barton which caused a stir, when she had to decline payment of royalites from the book as she would have been deemed to be a professional and have to forfeit her amateur status, to 2025, when Stephen Proctor, journalist and author of Monarch of the Green” and “The Long Golden Afternoon published his book “Matchless” in October 2025, about the early years of womens golf, focusing on 2 prominent players of the 1920s, Joyce Wethered and Glenna Collette.

Mackern, L. (2016). Our Lady of the Green: A Book of Ladies Golf. United States: Creative Media Partners, LLC.

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Armour, Tommy, How to play your best golf all the time, Hodder and Stoughton, 1954

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Barton, Pamela, A Stroke a Hole, Blackies, 1937
Batchelor, Gerald, Golf Stories, A. & C Black, 1914
Bauchope, CR., The Golfing Annual, 1888
Beldam, George W., Great Golfers: Their Methods at a Glance, Macmillan, 1904
Braid, James, The Ladies’ Field Golf Book, Newnes, 1908 .
Brown, Thomas, Golfiana, private, 1869
Browning, Robert H.K., Moments with Golfing Masters, Methuen, 1932

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Carnegie, George Fullarton, Golfiana, 1833
Chambers, Robert, Golfing, 1887
Clark, Robert, Golf A Royal and Ancient Game, private, 1875
Cotton, Henry, This Game of Golf, Country Life, 1948
Cundell, John, untitled, 1826

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Darwin, Bernard and Duncan, George, Present-Day Golf, Hodder and Stoughton, 1925
Darwin, Bernard, Pack Clouds Away, Collins, 1941
Darwin, Bernard, Golf between Two Wars, Chatto and Windus, 1944
Darwin, Bernard, Golfing By-Paths, Country Life, 1946
Darwin, Bernard, History of Golf in Britain, 1947
Darwin, Bernard, Golf, Burke, 1954
Dunlop-Hill, Noel, History of the Scottish Ladies’ Golfing Association, 1929

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Everard, H.S.C, History of the Royal and Ancient Club,1907

F

Farnie, Henry B., The Golfer’ s Manual, 1857

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Halma’s Dictionary, 1708
Helme, Eleanor, The Lady Golfer’s Tip Book, Mills and Boon, 1923
Helme, Eleanor, After the Ball, Hurst and Blackett, 1931
Hezlet, May, Ladies’ Golf, Hutchinson, 1904
Hughes, J., Historical Gossip about Golf and Golfers, Robb,1863
Hughes, W.E., Chronicles of Black heath Golfers, 1897
Hutchinson, Horace G., Golf, Badminton Library, 1890
Hutchinson, Horace G., Hints on the Game of Golf, Blackwood, 1893
Hutchinson, Horace G., The Book of Golf and Golfers, Longmans, 1899
Hutchinson, Horace G. (ed.), The New Book of Golf, Longmans, 1912
Hutchinson, Horace G., Fifty Years of Golf, Country Life/Newnes, 1919

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Kennard, Mary G., Sorrows of a Golfer’S Wife, 1896
Kerr, Rev. John, Golf Book of East Lothian, 1869
Kincaid, Thomas, Instructions in the Form of a Poem, 1687

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Lang, Andrew, A Batch of Golfing Papers, 1892

Lawrenson Nicky, Golf more than just a swing, 2020

Leitch, Cecil, Golf, Butterworth, 1922

Leitch, Cecil, Golf Simplified, Butterworth, 1924

Linskill, W.T., Golf, 1889

Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games and Pastimes, Seeley, 1931

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McAndrew, J., Golfing Step by Step, Mitchell, 1935

Macdonald, Charles Blair, Scotland’s Gift – Golf, 1928

Mair Lewin, One hundred years of Womens Golf, 1992

Mair Lewin, Robertson Belle, The Woman Golfer, 1988

Matheson, T., TheGoff 1743

Meyers Susie, Lazar Valerie, Golf from Point A, 2016

Millar Neil S. Early Golf, Royal Myths and Ancient Histories 2022

Murdoch, Joseph S.F., The Library of Golf, Gale, 1968

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Pearson, Issette, Our Lady of the Green, 1899
Player, Gary, Gary Player’s Golf Secrets, Pelham, 1964

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Ray, Edward, Some Hints for Lady Beginners, 1912

Ray, Ted, Golf: My Slice of Life, W.I-I. Allen, 1972

Reminiscences of Golf on Si Andrews Links, 1887

Robertson Belle, Mair Lewin, The Woman Golfer, 1988

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Salmond, J.B., The Story of the Rand A, Macmillan, 1956

Seton-Kerr, Sir Henry, Golf, 1907

Scott, Tom, A Century of Golf, 1960

Scrace Linda, A Mind for Golf, 2019

Shadwell, Thomas, Westmmster Drollery, 1671

Simpson, Sir Walter G., The Art of Golf, Douglas, 1887

Smith, Garden G., Golf, 1897

Souvenir Book of the Ladies’ Championship 1893- 1932, private, 1933

Stirling, Mrs, Sedgeley Court, 1860

Stringer, Mabel, Golfing Reminiscences, Mills and Boon, 1924

Stringer, Mabel, History of the LGU, unpublished

Stuart, Ian, Golf in Hertfordshire, Carling, 1973

Stuart, Patrick, Golf Grave and Gay, 1906

Summers, Montague (ed.), Complete Works of Thomas Shadwell, 1927 .