Oakhurst: The Birth and Rebirth of America's First Golf Course

by Paula DiPerna and Vikki Keller

Book Overview

Golf formally came to America in 1884. Russell Montague a thirty-two-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer had moved to White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, to improve his health. His Scottish neighbors,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802713718
• ISBN13: 9780802713711
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Walker Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The Best Golf Exerience In America

If you enjoy the game of golf, you owe it to yourself to buy this book and then visit Oakhurst Links. Oakhurst is America's first golf course. At Oakhurst in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia you are given hickory shafted clubs and gutta-percha balls to play golf as it was played in the 19th century. This book is well written and interesting. The golf experience is unlike any you have ever enjoyed.

A Non-Golfer's Impression

I ordered two copies of this book for golfing buddies but opened up a copy out of curiosity and couldn't put it down until I got to the end. DiPerna's prose is beautiful to read and will entrap any reader who appreciates a well-constructed phrase with sharp language. Paragraph one, Chapter one, sucks you in.