People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — GOLF IS POPULAR IN PRANCE. [ARTICLE]

GOLF IS POPULAR IN PRANCE.

Many Prominent Frenchmen Have Become Devoted to the Game. The golf season has just ended with the games of the Dinard Club. The golf week at Dinard has nothing equivalent to it in the sporting world, except the races at Trouville. From Dinan, from St. Malo, from St. Servan, from Parame, from St. Lunaire, from Paris, and even from England, the Englishmen arrive to play or to be present at this brilliant autumn meeting. Not only do the English and American colonies of the-Cote d’Emeraude furnish their contingent of fervent golf players, but also a number of families from across the water remain on the Malouin shore to be present at this new-game. French sportsmen belonging to the region or ruralizing there make it' a duty to follow the phases •of the game, and even to take part in it. For instance, last .year Count Joseph Rochald won the Dinard challenge cup. Golf (pronounced “gulf” or “geulf”) is a very old English game, which is somewhat like our ancient “soule.” It made its first appearance in France at Dinard in 1890. Since then it has become the great fashionable game, and it is even expected that it will completely dethrone tennis, cricket, polo and other games in vogue. There are already four golf links established in France: At Pau, at Biarritz, at Cannes, where the Grand Duke Michael introduced it, and finally at Dinard. The golf links at Dinard are incontestibly the best in France, according to the English professionals. Moreover, the thing which renders them unique in their kind, from the point of view of nature, is the great number of incomparable .views which surround them and their position on the sea coast, in the midst of unequaled scenery.