More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements (ed. Arcade Publishing, 1996) - ISBN: 9781559703277