The game. The stories. The good life.

Golf has always been a game of stories. The bad bounce that turned into a good round, the friend who never stops talking on the backswing, the course you still think about years later. Some of the finest of those stories were written a century ago, by people who loved the game as much as we do — and many of them have quietly gone out of print.

GolfProse is a home for that writing. At its heart is the Library: classic golf fiction, instruction and memoir from the public domain, free to read in full and set for comfortable reading on any screen, from a phone at the turn to a laptop on a rainy afternoon.

Around it sits the Journal, with essays on places worth the trip, the good life that surrounds the game, and the people and moments that shaped it.

The Sunday Golf Story

Every Sunday, our newsletter brings one timeless story, forgotten anecdote or well-written essay to your inbox. It’s free, and it’s the best way to follow along.

How GolfProse is supported

The site is free to read. It’s supported by our own illustrated editions, prints and journals, and by a small number of affiliate links to things we genuinely like. Nobody pays to be featured; see our affiliate disclosure for details.

About the texts

Library texts are in the public domain in the United States and are reproduced from their original editions. Introductions and notes are our own. If you spot a typo or a transcription error, we’d be grateful to hear about it.

Editorial standards

We want GolfProse to be a source you can rely on, so we hold ourselves to a few simple rules:

• Quotations are exact. Every quotation from a book is copied word for word from the original text, and we check each one against the source before publishing. We tell you which chapter it comes from, and the full text is in the Library so you can check it yourself.
• Facts come from the sources. Our articles draw on the books themselves and on well-established golf history. Where something is legend or disputed, we say so.
• Courses as they were. When we write about a course through a historical book, we describe it as it was then, not as it is today.
• Corrections. If we get something wrong, we fix it. Please tell us at the address below.

Get in touch

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