The Vardon Invasion: Harry's Triumphant 1900 American Tour | 
 enlarge | Authors: Bob Labbance, Brian Siplo
Creator: Tony Jacklin
Publisher: Sports Media Group
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Pages: 216
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 1587262940
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.352092
EAN: 9781587262944
ASIN: 1587262940
Publication Date: March 2008
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 The Vardon Tour of 1900 Revealed August 12, 2008
If you are a golf historian, you need to read this book. Little has been written of Harry Vardon's famous tour of the U.S. in 1900 - his own "My Golfing Life" from 1933 touches on it only briefly. Labbance offers a detailed account of the matches Vardon played and the courses he set records on, with facinating side bars on various players. We gain insight into course conditions of the times, the lack of competition, and the book brings it to life with wonderful photos and course diagrams. The results of each match are listed in the back of the book. Labbance has done a great job with a somewhat obscure topic, and as with his biography of Walter Travis, this is a welcome addition to the scholarhip of golf history.
The Vardon Invasion: Harry's Triumphant 1900 American Tour July 24, 2008
Bob Labbance has done yet another great job with golf history. If you are a golfer, this book will reveal things about the early days of American golf and the champuion from England, Harry Vardon who by the way, has the Vardon Trophy named after him for the PGA Pro who has the lowest scoring average on the tour. The book is well laid out, informational, entertaining and well worth it. Bob has written several other golf books that you should check out as well.
Across the Generations May 12, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
A favorite topic for discussion among golfers is how cross-generational matches would turn out. Would Tiger beat Jack Nicklaus? How would he fare against Ben Hogan? or Bobbie Jones? After reading The Vardon Invasion by Bob Labbance and Brian Siplo, I'd like to throw Harry Vardon's name into the mix.
The book tells the tale of how Vardon came to America in 1900 and energized the game in this country. He not only won the U.S. Open that year, but played 90 matches against the best amateur and professional golfers from Maine to Florida and west to Colorado. The book recounts many of those matches and is filled with interesting sidebars about his opponents and the courses they played.
I found descriptions of the courses themselves fascinating. Instead of the billiard-table greens and manicured fairways we play today, Harry and the boys teed it up on nine-hole tracks where irrigation was unheard of and greens might be "browns" of oiled and rolled sand rather than grass.
Vardon, of course, is best known here for his defeat in the 1913 U.S. Open at Brookline by Francis Ouimet. He won the British Open, though, six times--a record that stands to this day. He won 75 of the 90 matches in the 1900 tour covered in this book--most of them played against the best ball of two top amateurs or pros. A record like that would be envied by golfers of any generation.
Bob Labbance and Brian Siplo compiled The Vardon Invasion through countless hours of pouring through newspaper accounts and club records. Their work has paid off with a highly readable tribute to the man against whom all future champions should be measured.
Dave Donelson, author of Heart of Diamonds: A Novel of Scandal, Love and Death in the Congo
Long Overdue May 5, 2008
This is a long overdue addition to the library of golf.
Harry Vardon's tour of America in 1900 did as much to promote the game of golf in the early part of the century as did Francis Ouimet's win at the U.S.Open in 1913. This is a must have for those who know that golf didn't start in 1998 when Elderick Woods started to play.
 Not bad... April 28, 2008
Good book if you are a golf historian, a good look at golf at the turn of the century and how little Americans knew about the actual rules.
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