Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — It Is Not Modern. [ARTICLE]

It Is Not Modern.

People are apt to consider that golf in England Is quite a modern introduction, and it will be news to many that it was popular and that It flourished pretty close to London more than a hundred years ago. Evidence of this may be found In a fine engraving by Valentine Green of a picture after L. F. Abbot, entitled “Golfers on Blackheath” and dated 1790. >.