Blacksmith“s son, David Lunt, was born in Colne, Lancashire (UK).
This was one of the last places in the world where „Poor Man“s Golf“ (knurr and spell) was played. Having earlier written a biography about Australian professional golfer, Jack Harris, and having struggled to play the game of golf himself for over sixty years, Lunt decided that it was now time to understand how and where this obsession, which is shared by millions of nutters all around the world, had its genesis.
His findings were very surprising.
Equally surprising was the fact that knurr and spell had also been played in Philadelphia, USA in the early 1860s prior to the rapid growth in the game of baseball. But that may be a story for the future!
3 Ebooks von David Lunt
Lee Trepanier: Why the Humanities Matter Today
The humanities in American higher education is in a state of crisis with declining student enrollment, fewer faculty positions, and diminishing public prestige. Instead of recycling old arguments tha …
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€44.81
David Lunt: Poor Man’s Golf
Golf was the most popular stick and ball game throughout the 1800s in the UK, but it wasn’t the golf played in Scotland. It was ‚poor man’s golf‘ as played throughout all the former Danelaw area of E …
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€9.49
David Lunt: Crown Games of Ancient Greece
The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at Delphi, the Isthmi …
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€34.76