The Gentry Links Trilogy

Gentry Links Books
Imaginative and Creative
From our home town of St Andrews, Gentry Links Books operates online as a well-oiled machine, with each member of our team contributing their skills and expertise to produce books that add to the library of golf. With our brilliant editors, book designer, printers, and book binders, we create niche literature that is second to none. With high resolution 'museum quality' images we set out to create modern looking books on golf history.
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But we couldn't have got here without the care, commitment and support of our publishers, Grant Books Ltd, for which we are very grateful.
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As the author, I knew that I was in safe hands!
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Alastair Loudon

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The Gentry Links Trilogy reflects the lives of the characters in three of golf's most iconic works of art from the 19th century to tell the story of how the game of golf evolved into the sport we know and love today.
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Needing a solid foundation as a starting point we explored the most famous painting in golf, Charles Lees' 1847 painting, The Golfers: the Grand Match over the Links of St Andrews.
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Seeking corroboration of the discoveries in 'The Golfers', we take a step back in time to The Fathers of North Berwick Golf Club, 1832 painted by the renowned Scottish artist, Sir Francis Grant, PRA (also known as The First Meeting of North Berwick Golf Club, 1832).
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Then we use the benefits of the passage of time to delve into the identity and biographies of the gentlemen golfers of St Andrews in the 189os, including the members of the first Rules of Golf Committee of 1897. We do this with the assistance of one of the most famous paintings in the collection of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club, entitled Captain Driving Off, (but more commonly known as Medal Day, 1894) by Alexander Hamilton Wardlow.
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Coincidentally, these 3 paintings represented 3 key inflection points in golf development in Scotland.
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