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Royal Liverpool Golf Club 1869-2019 A NEW BOOK


Hoylake Celebration


MARKS THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF


ROYAL LIVERPOOL.


Right: Some of the book’s 216 pages and 250 images


OVER THE YEARS, Royal Liverpool Golf Club has inspired many writers to reflect on Hoylake’s history, the links, its champions and championships, and the Club’s culture and traditions. Yet when Royal


history has been written and updated, the writers have invariably been Club members. Guy Farrar’s significance as Secretary


will always be recognised, but it was as a member that his wonderfully readable The Royal Liverpool Golf Club 1869–1932 was written, a book that will always serve as the definitive record of Hoylake’s early years. John Behrend also wrote a definitive


work - John Ball of Hoylake (1989), and soon after Golf at Hoylake, an anthology of writings about Royal Liverpool which was compiled with John Graham. In 2006 the Club’s history was updated


8 ROYAL LIVERPOOL GOLF CLUB MAGAZINE 2019–2020 Liverpool’s own


by the publication of Joe Pinnington’s Mighty Winds…Mighty Champions, an evocative title borrowing words from famous lines written by the great golf writer, Bernard Darwin. Royal Liverpool Trustee Anthony Shone’s Hoylake - A History of the Links (2010) is dedicated to admirers of the course. Leslie Edwards was a Hoylake member and professional Royal


journalist and, Liverpool’s in centenary of 1969,


he wrote a concise history of the Club and championships played over the links, following it with an updated 1983 Walker Cup edition, co-authored with


John


Brocklehurst. So when


Royal Liverpool


commissioned a book to accompany the 150th Anniversary celebrations, the Club followed the traditions of the past and invited two members - Blyth Bell and Roger Greenway - to write it.


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