Stephen Proctor: Matchless

Stephen Proctor has served as a senior editor at The Baltimore Sun, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Houston Chronicle. He is an avid golfer and has spent the past decade studying the history of the royal and ancient game. He is the author of Monarch of the Green (Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2020 Biography of the Year) and The Long Golden Afternoon (shortlisted for the Sunday Times 2023 Sports Book Awards for Best Sports Writing, and the USGA Herbert Warren Wind Book Award) and lives in Malabar, Florida.

In this episode, we'll preview his 2025 release, Matchless: Joyce Wethered, Glenna Collett and the Rise of Women's Golf. Stephen is a meticulous researcher and scholar, and listeners will gain new insights into the legacy of women's golf, the predominance of early female players from the 1920s, and be concomitantly thoroughly entertained. Few golf historians are as fluid, knowledgeable, and quick witted as Stephen Proctor.

Matchless is published by Birlinn books out of Edinburgh, Scotland, and can be purchased outside the United States via Bookshop.org, or in the States (online) at BarnesandNoble.com.