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SHORTLISTED 2023

Best Sports Writing Award | Shortlisted

The Long Golden Afternoon

by Stephen Proctor

Golf's Age of Glory, 1864-1914

The Long Golden Afternoon tells the story of the transformative generation of golf that followed the rise of Young Tom Morris – an era of sweeping change in rules and organisation that saw Scotland’s national pastime develop in popularity to become one of the rare games played around the world.

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