"You’ll pardon my fleeting interest in yet another instructional tract, or coffee-table book of pretty courses. . . . For readers more interested in where the game sits on the country’s cultural landscape than in whether anyone was better than Bobby Jones and Ben Hogan, Golf in America is an indispensable guide."--Golfweek

"Kirsch delivers excellent pen portraits of the great, good and obscure in American golf, and quotes richly from the golfing literature of the early twentieth century when exploring the game’s meanings and appeal."--Times Literary Supplement

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"Exceptional."--The Globe and Mail

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"Kirsch traces golf's path in the United States, hitting the high notes just right."--Golf Digest

"Excellent."--Geoff Shackelford

"As the first true social history of American golf, Golf in America changes our understanding of the place of golf in American sport. A truly special achievement."--Steven Schlossman, professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and historian of the U.S. Open Championship and the Curtis Cup Match

"Golf in America is the best one-volume history of American golf. Kirsch astutely covers a wide variety of topics, including the Americanization of golf, the rise of Jewish country clubs, the struggles of women and African American golfers for equal treatment, the environmental effects of golf courses, and even the role of the motorized golf cart. An extremely thorough and contextualized contribution to our understanding of sport history."--Steven A. Riess, author of City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports