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First edition, first impression, in the first issue binding with the illustrator's name misspelled "Rowntree" on the front cover. Darwin, the grandson of the famous naturalist, is still regarded as one of golf's greatest journalists and his works have "achieved a classic status" (Jack, p. 151). Bernard Darwin (1876-1961) was the golf correspondent for The Times for almost five decades. The present work, one of his many triumphs, is an essential part of any golfing library. In the second edition (1925), the chapter concerning the golf courses of Ireland was removed. Donovan & Murdoch 14410. Zachary Michael Jack, ed., Participatory Sportswriting: An Anthology, 1870-1937, 2009. Quarto. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt and green, binder's stamp in blind on rear board, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece showing St Andrews and 63 plates (47 colour), all with tissue guards and by Rountree. Ex-Stephen's Green Club, Dublin, with its ink stamp on the front free endpaper recto; partially erased 1910 Christmas gift inscription in ink on frontispiece verso; couple of pencil corrections internally. Cloth clean, spine cocked, extremities rubbed, rear inner hinge a little tender with webbing visible at foot, contents lightly foxed: a very good copy.