Wright & Dixon’s Guide to American Golf.
In restored and repaired wrappers, it was far and away the most expensive of 435 lots offered as part of the most recent golf sale held by PBA Galleries (20% buyer’s premium).
Content includes the USGA by-laws, instructions for laying out a course, a list of clubs, hints on play and a section devoted to competition results.
The earliest recorded American golf book is J Stuart Balfour’s Golf, published by the Spalding Athletic Library in 1893. The only auction appearance of that work I could trace came in 1998, when a copy in the superb Murdoch golf library made $2500 at PBA.
