When War Played Through brings to life these little-known aspects of an endlessly fascinating period in golfs history. Bestselling golf author John Streges narrative extends overseas, to captured soldiers in Germany who constructed golf courses in a POW camp and English golfers who devised rules for playing around bomb craters and shrapnel during the Blitz. Many golfers returned home from battle with commendations for valor, finding unmatched solace on the links after a dark time.

When War Played Through is the compelling story of how an elite sport became a selfless oneand how golf became, for a nation at war, much more than a game. BACKCOVER: Streges fascinating history of golf during World War II and the ends that duffers went to on all fronts to keep swinging makes for a chronicle worth surrendering to.
Sports Illustrated