Title: The haunted major
First published: 1960
Description: "Inspired by the new craze for golf that had developed at the dawn of the 20th century, this comic story recounts the efforts of sports-mad Major Gore to beat Lindsay, a young golf champion.  The Major receives supernatural assistance in his cause from the ghost of Cardinal Smeaton, a Scottish renaissance figure who is still nursing a grudge against his opponent's family." - - Description by Peter Haining, in "A Century of Ghost Novels 1900 - 200" (Appendix to his book, The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories)
Subjects: Fiction, Golf, Golfers, Tournaments, Women millionaires, Americans, Ghosts, Wagers, Modern fiction, Fiction - General, General, Classics, Fiction, historical, Scotland, fiction, Fiction, sports, Fiction, historical, general, Golf stories, Ghost stories
Places: Scotland, Great Britain
People: Cardinal Smeaton, Major Gore
Time periods: Written in 1902, set at that time