It is a rare thing in the golf literary world when a single writer has two books published at virtually the same moment, but Vermont-based author Bob Labbance has managed to do just that.  One of the game’s great contemporary historians, Labbance has long been a first-class researcher, and his skills are amply displayed in each of these fine volumes, which carry us all the way back to, well...  My goodness, even before Tiger Woods.

The first title, co-authored with St. Andrews (NY) Golf Club curator Brian Siplo, is The Vardon Invasion: Harry’s Triumphant 1900 American Tour (Ann Arbor, MI: Sports Media Group, 204pp, 2008), and I must state up front...  (Continue)