Best Sports Writing Award

SHORTLIST 2023

Long Golden Afternoon

The Long Golden Afternoon

Golf's Age of Glory, 1864-1914

By Stephen Proctor

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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