No caddie, no agent, no traveling swing coach or sports psychologist, no physical therapist, conditioning guru, nutritionist, or chiropractor… Harry conquered America with ten hickory shafted homemade clubs in a canvas bag and an ungainly aerodynamically challenged ball handcrafted from the hardened sap of an Indonesian palanquin tree.

It's impossible to find a modern equivalent in any sport for the impact of Harry's 1900 American tour; Babe Ruth, Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan, Arnold Palmer, and Tiger Woods come to mind, but each entered an established widely popular game and raised it to a higher level of public interest. Harry encountered an entire country with little or no awareness of an obscure British pastime and so inspired the people who witnessed his exploits that within twenty-five years the country's players achieved a world dominance in the game they have never relinquished.

Reprinted without permission from The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost, Hyperion, 2002.

The Golfer's Ten Commandments
Royal and Ancient
Into the Bear Pit
Helicopter Words
The Walter Hagen Story
ClubAlert . . . The Electronic Club Leash
I Remember Augusta
Hoch as in Choke!
Bud, Sweat, & Tees
Only Golf Spoken Here
Passion for Golf
Fourteen Clubs and the Auld Claret Jug
Gleanings from the Wayside
Discovering Donald Ross
The Art of Golf Design
A Round of Golf with Tommy Armour
Lazy Days at Lahinch
Letters to a Young Golfer
Understanding the Golf Swing
The Light of Day