This five-volume collection builds on the success of The Gentry Links Trilogy (Grant Books, 2023) and carries its story into the modern era.

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Each book traces how the 'modern game' of golf emerged:

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• from its leap in affordability with the change from featherie to gutty in 1847;

• to its coming of age with the creation of uniform rules in the 1890s; and

• to the parity reached between amateur and professional golfers in the 1930s.

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These turning points are brought to life through the characters captured in art and remembered in history.

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The Trilogy takes readers on a journey from The Golfers, 1847, with analysis supported by The First Meeting of North Berwick Golf Club, 1832, to Medal Day, 1894. It culminated in Origins1926, which portrayed far more than a sporting occasion: the painting includes the leading golfers of the age, linking the pre- and post- First World War eras.

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The Series concludes with A Life’s Two Nines: a memoir-biography of William Niel Brown Loudon, OBE, who served on the executive of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club during its critical years between 1963 and 1982. This volume bridges the modern era of the 1970s by identifying the titans of golf who shaped its further development. It recounts not only the major changes within the R&A, but also uses Kenya as a vivid microcosm of golf’s growth in Britain’s ‘second empire’, in contrast to golf's evolution in its ‘first empire’ of  North America.

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Publication of the new volume will begin in 2026, and expressions of interest are warmly invited.