On a Sunday in quiet Grouville, strangers began marking out a golf course—and the local farmers were ready to drive them off. Seven-year-old Harry Vardon would soon be carrying their clubs, then making his own with thorn wood and a red-hot poker. In late nineteenth-century Jersey, the common land at Grouville was a natural links, but young Harry and the other village boys had no clubs, balls, or money to play. They fashioned a four-hole course, used marbles for balls, and built their own clubs; for Vardon, a childhood fascination became a lifelong pursuit. In this blend of memoir and instruction, he looks back at the rough beginnings behind his study of golf’s methods and the skill it takes to play well. What can a boy’s homemade club teach about becoming a complete golfer? With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.
