The first tee is a promise of a better day.
A century on, P.G. Wodehouse’s golf stories still read like dispatches from your own clubhouse — and they begin with a young man trying to give his clubs away.
Stories & Essays
The Library
Classic golf writing from the public domain, free to read in full — plus our essays on the books and the writers behind them.
Works
- The Clicking of CuthbertP.G. Wodehouse
The Clicking of Cuthbert
P.G. Wodehouse, 1922
- The Heart of a GoofP.G. Wodehouse
The Heart of a Goof
P.G. Wodehouse, 1926
- The Complete GolferHarry Vardon
The Complete Golfer
Harry Vardon, 1905
- The Golf Courses of the British IslesBernard Darwin
The Golf Courses of the British Isles
Bernard Darwin, 1910
- Fore!Charles E. Van Loan
Fore!
Charles E. Van Loan, 1918
Essays from the Library
A Golfer’s Bookshelf
Five classic golf books, free to read in full in the GolfProse Library — and where to begin with each.
Harry Vardon’s Lessons, a Century On
The greatest golfer of his age grew up making clubs from hawthorn in Jersey. His book is part memoir, part manual, and still full of good sense.
The Oldest Member’s Guide to Love
In The Clicking of Cuthbert, Wodehouse’s clubhouse sage has firm views on romance — chiefly that it should never be allowed to interfere with a man’s short game.
Rodney Spelvin and the Perils of Poetry
Across three stories in The Heart of a Goof, Wodehouse’s most insufferable poet pursues Jane Packard, torments William Bates, and runs into the one force more powerful than verse.
Charles Van Loan and the American Locker Room
Four years before The Clicking of Cuthbert, an American sportswriter was filling the country-club locker room with slow foursomes, sharp old men and golfers who swear they’ll never play again.