HOTCHKIN, STAFFORD VERE. THE PRINCIPLES OF GOLF ARCHITECTURE. LONDON: PREMIER PRESS, [CA. 1930].

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HOTCHKIN, STAFFORD VERE. THE PRINCIPLES OF GOLF ARCHITECTURE. LONDON: PREMIER PRESS, [CA. 1930].
8°, [2],25,[1]p. Original yellow wrappers, front cover printed with itle in green.
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Peter Dobereiner, bookplate.

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Lot Essay

A VERY RARE COLLECTION OF ARTICLES, first publishd in the Club Sportsman. In 1902 Colonel Hotchkin provided land for the resiting of Woodhall Spa G.C. (founded in 1890) and Harry Vardon was employed to design the course. It opened in 1905 with an exhibition match that included the Great Triumvirate of Harry Vardon, James Braid and J.H. Taylor, the last two setting a course record of 68. Harry Colt completed a redesign of the course in 1914. From 1919 through to the 1930s, Hotchkin himself took over the finances of the club and remodelled many of the holes, moving greens, tees and hazard locations. Today 'the Hotchkin' is rated as one of the finest golf courses in the world. His own golf course company, established in the late 1920s, designed many of the courses in Britain and South Africa. Not in Murdoch.

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