Golf (the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes) (1890)
Hutchinson, Horace G., Wellwood, Lord, Simpson, Walter Sir · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 29
ll, in fewer strokes than your adversary took, through an elevated iron ring, the @’rcum ferreum of Hieronymus Mercurialis. This is clearly the same game as golf in idea. But the course was narrow, and sometimes, apparently, bordered by a palisade. Such, then, are the foreign games, cousins or… … FROM AN ENCAUSTIC TILE However this may be, to write the history of golf as it should be done demands a thorough study of all Scottish Acts of Parliament, Kirk Sessions records, memoirs, and in fact of Scottish literature, legislation, and history, from the beginning of time. Unfortunately it is…
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