First golf book tees off in the US

Published in 1895, Wright & Dixon’s Guide to American Golf… was one of the very first books on the game to appear in that country. A copy sold on April 12 in San Francisco for $42,500 (£29,930) was billed as “perhaps the only copy extant”.

In restored and repaired wrappers, it was far and away the most expensive of 435 lots offered as p…

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