| Who Invented Golf? The rules of the game were formally written down in 1744, but people had already been playing for centuries. On March 6, 1457, King James II, who was the King of Scots from 1437 until his death in 1460, in an Act of Parliament banned citizens from playing football and golf. Scotsmen had allegedly been playing these games instead of practicing archery skills for their mandatory military training. This ban is the first written mention of a game called golf. But what was this game? "There is both text and visual evidence that there was a game that we would call golf,” says Rand Jerris, a prominent golf historian and the former Director of The USGA Golf Museum and Library. "One was played over large pieces of property striking balls out in the open. The other was actually a game that was played through the streets of a village or a town where they were hitting a ball into a churchyard or down a street." What Jerris and other golf historians are sure of is that there is enough evidence to prove that by the mid-1500s there was a game being played with multiple clubs over long distances to a hole in the ground. Grab the clubs and check out these titles |
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| Books on the Air An overview of talked-about books and authors. This weekly update, published every Friday, provides descriptions of recent TV and radio appearances by authors and their recently released books. See the hot titles from the media this week. |
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| Beth O'Leary Beth O'Leary is a Sunday Times bestselling author whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. Her debut, The Flatshare, sold over half a million copies and changed her life completely. Her second novel, The Switch, has been optioned for film by Amblin Partners, Steven Spielberg's production company. Beth writes her books in the English countryside with a very badly behaved golden retriever for company. If she's not at her desk, you'll usually find her curled up somewhere with a book, a cup of tea, and several woolly jumpers (whatever the weather). Check out her books here. |
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| Library Reads Library Reads-The top ten books published this month that library staff across the country love, with additional hall of fame authors. Check them out here |
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| The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.-David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
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