XXI A MORE LIBERAL POLICY AT ST. ANDREWS 132 XXII THE FIRST AMATEUR WIN OF THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP 138 XXIII GOLF ON THE CONTINENT AND IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 144 XXIV ABOUT HAROLD HILTON, FREDDY TAIT AND OTHERS 150 XXV THE COMING OF THE THREE GREAT MEN 156 XXVI THE REVOLT OF THE AMAZONS 162 XXVII THE MAKING OF INLAND COURSES 168 XXVIII VARIOUS CHAMPIONSHIPS AND THE WANDERING SOCIETIES 174 XXIX THE COMIC COMING OF THE HASKELL BALL 180 XXX AN HISTORIC MATCH AND AN HISTORIC TYPE 186 XXXI THE INTERNATIONAL MATCH 192 XXXII HOW MR. JUSTICE BUCKLEY KEPT HIS EYE ON THE HASKELL BALL 198 XXXIII THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP OF 1903 204 XXXIV TRAVIS'S YEAR 210 XXXV HOW GOLF HAS GRIPPED AMERICA 216 XXXVI THE END OF THE ROUND 223 FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: _Montaigne's Essays_, Florio's translation.] ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE The writer, the first English Captain of the Royal and Ancient, buying back, according to custom, the ball struck off to win the Captaincy _Frontispiece_ Borough House, Northam 12 Mr. Peter Steel driving the gravel pit at Blackheath 13 At Pau: the oldest of non-Scottish Golf Clubs 16 Captain's Medal of the Royal North Devon Golf Club 17 The Ladies' Course at Pau, in the Days of the Crinoline 20 Miss Cecil Leitch 21 Westward Ho! 26 An Old Hoylake Group 27 An Old Westward Ho! Group 32 Thomas Owen Potter 33 "Old Tom" 70 Douglas Rolland and Archie Simpson 71 John Ball 80 A.F. Macfie 81 A.J. Balfour 100 Crawford 101 John Ball, as a Yeoman 120 J.E. Laidlay 121 The Chasm on the Old Biarritz Course 144 Arnaud Massy 145