Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Delighted to receive this wonderful review of Matchless in The Golf, journal of The Golf Heritage Society in the U.S. 🙏 270
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Bernard Darwin, the soldier, from his April 1916 column in Golf Illustrated entitled “Our Foreign Letter” and written from the military base at Aldershot during the Great War. 070
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Breaking news: My third work of narrative golf history — Matchless — is now available for pre-order. It’s available everywhere on Amazon, but I prefer you order in the U.S. from Barnes and Noble online or in the U.K. from bookshop.org, as I am a big fan of bookstores. 080
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Back to my favorite pastime — rummaging through wartime issues of Golf Illustrated in preparation for writing an article for @thelinksdiary — when what should I stumble across but a full page print of one of my heroes, John Henry Taylor, golf’s Indispensable Man! 020
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 15/06/2025It’s a faded old photo — but still a treasure. My father, my son and me playing farm golf at Wittsend. I miss my dad terribly, but am proud to see that my son has become a wonderful father himself. Happy Father’s Day everyone! 080
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Quotable: Wyatt Earp on his friend Doc Holliday. 010
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 01/05/2025What a way to wake up — finding a gift of two sporty flat caps from my pal @JimHHartsell — the Bard of Western Scotland! 050
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Quotable: Prescient words from the great Jimmy Demaret in Charles Price’s Golfer-at-Large, up next on The Duffer’s Literary Companion. 020
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Announcement: The release of the next episode of The Duffer’s Literary Companion is being delayed a week — until Friday May 9 — as @JimHHartsell has been traveling in Scotland and I’ve been hosting pals from The Sun. Charles Price will be worth waiting for, I promise. 031
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I’m preparing to host old golf pals from The Baltimore Sun. One was the photo editor, and thus a sly dog with technology. He just sent this photoshopped image, which I could not resist sharing. 😂 061
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I don’t think we’ve ever had more fun discussing a book. Listen in! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comGolf in the KingdomPodcast Episode · The Duffer’s Literary Companion · 04/04/2025 · 1h 41m 140
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Thrilled to see the municipal golf project that has been my passion in retirement features in Golf Course Industry Magazine. 030
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Back at my happy place in Jersey City — an art collector’s rental flat known as the Norton House. These were among the new treasures that awaited. Another treasure, Skyway Golf Course, is on tap tomorrow. 030
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025One more wee wander down the rabbit hole and I will have experienced the bulk of this man’s literary genius. One thing is certain even before I begin. A new name has been added to the list of my favorite writers. ✍️ 230
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Naturally, I could not resist Darwin’s take on my current literary obsession with Robert Louis Stevenson. Enjoy! 040
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 24/02/2025And further down the rabbit hole I go . . . 030
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 20/02/2025My editor at Birlinn has now read Matchless, and I’ve addressed his queries, so it’s on to publication later this year. Fun facts: Only one golfer — John Ball Jr — has won more Amateurs than Glenna Collett. Joyce Wethered played 166 matches lifetime and won 152 of them. 🤯 170
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 16/02/2025I’m a bit down the rabbit hole on Mr Stevenson, I freely admit, but I’ve come to realize that the most brilliant thing he’s ever done might well be thus children’s classic. 030
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Trust me, this one is worth having waited for. Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comA Course Called Ireland with Tom CoynePodcast Episode · The Duffer’s Literary Companion · 02/14/2025 · 1h 40m 011
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025I love the way The Fried Egg and others are reinventing golf media, so I always enjoy a chance to join in their conversation. Give this a listen. 091
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Tom was a great interview and we are grateful to him for joining us on the podcast. Stay tuned! 020
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Absolutely swept away by this book. It has given me a new appreciation of the personal and literary genius of Robert Louis Stevenson. It has also introduced me to the extraordinary woman whose love kept Stevenson alive and whose partnership inspired and elevated his brilliance. 030
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Announcement: The release of this month’s episode of The Duffer’s Literary Companion — featuring an interview with Tom Coyne, author of A Course Called Ireland — is being delayed a week, until Feb. 14, as my poor partner @JimHHartsell has been laid low by illness. 000
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Quotable: A moment of brilliance from Robert Louis Stevenson. 000
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Got a wee bonus while watching Littler nip Knudson at Royal Ottawa on Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf — a glimpse of Alexa Stirling, the first of America’s great women golfers, as she enjoyed what was a wonderful match. 040
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 25/01/2025That’s a wrap. The manuscript for Matchless — the story of these two incomparable women — is off to the publisher. Let the process of making it into a book begin! It should be out come Christmas. #golfhistory 290
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Super cool tournament swag — a classy two-sided flag. 👌 020
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Quotable: “What a wonderful, noble act of vision, what a gift and a challenge, to leave behind the inexhaustible poem-in-landscape of a great golf hole.” — Andrew Greig in Preferred Lies. Featured this month on The Duffer’s Literary Companion. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts! 030
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 10/01/2025It’s time for another episode of The Duffer’s Literary Companion — starting the year off right with an oft-requested classic. Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comPreferred Lies by Andrew GreigPodcast Episode · The Duffer’s Literary Companion · 01/10/2025 · 1h 5m 021
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Because of the holidays, the next episode of The Duffer’s Literary Companion will be released on January 10th. It features Andrew Greig’s classic Preferred Lies. Stay tuned! 051
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Wonderful gift from my daughter this holiday — a framed print of The Great Glenna! Matchless! 080
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Quotable: “Where, exactly, did our generation mislay dignity?” — Andrew Grieg, “Preferred Lies.” Next up on The Duffer’s Literary Companion! 030
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Saw this yesterday at my local community theatre. It was an absolute delight! It must have been a gas to be in the studio audience for the broadcast of a live radio play. That’s a rabbit hole I could see myself wandering down. 010
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 13/12/2024It’s mid December, so it’s only natural that Wittsend Farm would be abloom with the wee white flower known locally as “Florida snow.” 150
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024On his 80th birthday, walking and carrying at Walton Heath, James Braid went around in 81. During his lifetime, he made a 2 on every hole of both courses at that classic venue, not to mention 18 holes in one. All hail James Braid! @jimhhartsell.bsky.social 090
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Every writer has an editor they trust above all others. Mine, a former newspaper colleague, just finished the draft of my new book and declared it a success. Which has me over the moon happy. Some revisions are needed, of course, but Matchless is close to where it needs to be. 🙌 160
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 06/12/2024podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... It’s the first Friday of the month, so that means it’s time for another episode of The Duffer’s Literary Companion! Enjoy!podcasts.apple.comThe Architectural Side of Golf by Tom Simpson and H.N. WetheredPodcast Episode · The Duffer’s Literary Companion · 12/06/2024 · 1h 19m 071
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 02/12/2024It’s feels like 51 degrees at Wittsend Farm. In Florida that qualifies as freezing. Time for a warm by the hearth. 130
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 30/11/2024For St Andrews Day, what better than a poem from this charming volume about The City of Golf? Enjoy! 🏴 080
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Here’s hoping that all of my friends in the U.S. have a happy Thanksgiving. I’m grateful to all of you who have read my books and followed this feed. 🙏🦃 040
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Sometimes a picture (or sketch) really is worth 1,000 words. Here, from The Architectural Side of Golf, Tom Simpson shows how strategic design transforms a dull 9-hole course into a brilliant one. This seminal work is next up on The Duffer’s Literary Companion. Tune in! 091
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 26/11/2024No one waits for Black Friday now, so I may as well suggest that this festive season you give the gift of Golf Before the War — a two volume tale that begins with the rise of Young Tommy and continues through the emergence of the Great Triumvirate. Happy Holiday! 070
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 24/11/2024My favorite swing tip is from this 1886 book: “It is most important that you should keep your eye fixedly on the ball from the moment the clubhead is lifted off the ground until the moment the ball is actually struck.” The word “fixedly” does it for me. 040
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024What better to come home to after a golf trip with friends than this truly magnificent publication— and the tale of a father-son trip to St Andrews that is just about the loveliest thing I’ve ever read. 💔 I am proud to call you a friend Jim Hartsell. 090
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024My first visit to beautiful Lake Lure in NC since the horrifying tragedy that was Hurricane Helene. It’s a terribly sad sight even still. 😞 But the spirit of the people here is amazing, and better days lie ahead. 080
Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Given all the discussion this weekend about slow play on the LPGA Tour I could not resist posting the opening of Darwin’s classic essay, The People in Front. Enjoy! 070