R&A gifted world's biggest collection of golf books


  • Golf
  • Friday, 10 Jan 2020

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LONDON (Reuters) - Everything and anything that ever happened in the game of golf can be found between the covers of Alastair Johnston's vast 30,000-volume collection of golf books and he is donating the whole lot to the R&A at St Andrews.

Johnston, former chairman of Scottish soccer club Rangers and vice chairman of management group IMG, bought his first golf book during an internship at IMG in 1969 and he has been accumulating ever since, adding as many as 800 titles per year.

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