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The Gate to Golf Author: Edgar, J. Douglas Place: Washington, DC Publisher: Byron & Adams Date: 1920 Description: 61 pp. Illustrated from photographs. 8vo. Gilt-lettered blue cloth, accompanied by Edgar's invented "gate to golf" rubber stand and two block pieces (with metal parts), all housed in the publisher's original pictorial folding box with illustrated cover label showing a golf course in the background as seen through a metal gate titled "The Gate to Golf" and author's name printed on the front gate. First Edition. Rarely seen complete with Edgar’s invented “Gate” device, consisting of two smaller rubber blocks and one larger rubber device (lettered "Patent-Applied-For") with metal hinge, used to help improve a golfer’s swing. Also, the publisher’s cigar-like box containing all “Gate” parts and housing the book as well. Edgar, an occasionally brilliant but often erratic player who died mysteriously in 1921 at the age of 35, was the pioneer of the method of hitting the ball he referred to as 'from inside out.' The book is based on this theory, which has slowly become accepted as sound and is, today, common practice. Edgar was the hitting mentor for Tommy Armour. “Edgar is one of the more enigmatic figures in the history of golf…He won the 1919 Canadian Open…Harry Vardon noted, ‘This is the one man who one day will be the greatest of us all’… Edgar’s potential was never fully realized…his life was cut short…on a street in Atlanta, either struck by a car or murdered” – D&J E223 0; Murdoch 224; D&M 15770. Lot Amendments Condition: A few repairs to box; volume with light rubbing at spine ends, bumped at corners; rubber stamp of A.J. Hills on front free endpaper; very good or better overall. Item number: 319050