CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
FROM THE PIONEERS TO THE GREAT TRIUMVIRATE, 1860–1900
Allan Robertson
Willie Park Snr
Old Tom Morris
Young Tom Morris
John Ball
Harold Hilton
Freddie Tait
JH Taylor
Harry Vardon
James Braid
Arnaud Massy
Ted Ray
AMERICAN BIRTH AND THE AGE OF THE EMPEROR, 1900–1930
Willie Anderson
Walter Travis
Jerome Travers
Francis Ouimet
Jim Barnes
George Duncan
Walter Hagen
Gene Sarazen
Bobby Jones
Cecil Leitch
Joyce Wethered
Glenna Collett Vare
NELSON, HOGAN, SNEAD AND THE BABE, 1930–1950
Tommy Armour
Sir Henry Cotton
Lawson Little
Byron Nelson
Ben Hogan
Sam Snead
Jimmy Demaret
Cary Middlecoff
Jessie Valentine
Patty Berg
Babe Zaharias
Louise Suggs
Betsy Rawls
INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION, 1950–1960
Bobby Locke
Flory Van Donck
Norman Von Nida
Peter Thomson
Kel Nagle
Christy O’Connor Snr
Joe Carr
Sir Michael Bonallack
Marlene Stewart Streit
Moe Norman
THE BIG THREE, 1960–1970
Tommy Bolt
Mickey Wright
Arnold Palmer
Jack Nicklaus
Gary Player
Julius Boros
Tony Lema
Billy Casper
Sir Bob Charles
Roberto de Vicenzo
Catherine Lacoste
JoAnne Carner
Kathy Whitworth
Charlie Sifford
THE NICKLAUS CHALLENGERS, 1970–1980
Lee Trevino
Tony Jacklin
Raymond Floyd
Johnny Miller
Hale Irwin
Tom Watson
Nancy Lopez
Isao Aoki
SEVE AND THE RISE OF EUROPE, 1980–1995
Severiano Ballesteros
Bernhard Langer
Sandy Lyle
Sir Nick Faldo
Ian Woosnam
Curtis Strange
Ben Crenshaw
Payne Stewart
Greg Norman
Nick Price
John Daly
José María Olazábal
Colin Montgomerie
THE TIGER ERA, 1995–2011
Ernie Els
Vijay Singh
Juli Inkster
Laura Davies
Se Ri Pak
Karrie Webb
Annika Sörenstam
Tiger Woods
Phil Mickelson
David Duval
Retief Goosen
Sergio Garcia
Padraig Harrington
Lorena Ochoa
Yani Tseng
Lee Westwood
Darren Clarke
Rory McIlroy
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index