The magnificent, sometimes tragic, always inspiring stories of the greats of golf and how they lit up the world with their own brands of magic.

Since Old Tom Morris won three of the first five Open Championships in the 1860s, so many greats have vied for that prize and others.

Did you know that Bobby Jones created the famous Augusta course? That Sam Snead won three green jackets? Let’s not forget Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen, Gary Player, Arnold Palmer (The King) and Jack Nicklaus. Then there was the magnificent Seve, the Great White Shark and Tiger.

And the women are here too: Karrie Webb, Jan Stephenson, Patty Berg, Annika Sorenstam and Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias, known as Babe after Babe Ruth because she was truly magnificent.

Written by sports writer and golf mad Matt Cleary, A Short History of Golf is one man’s take on the highs and lows of the great game of golf.

‘Bloody brilliant.’ – Greg Norman