The Golf Courses of the British Isles

It would clearly be unbecoming to treat the western and south-western courses in strict geographical order, because there is one honoured name which must come first, that of =We...

There is always something stirring in a roll of illustrious names, and for the mere sensual pleasure of writing them I set them down in order at the beginning of the chapter--Sa...

There are several very excellent courses in Wales, but I am quite determined to put Aberdovey first--not that I make for it any claim that it is the best, not even on the streng...

Some dozen or fifteen years ago the historian of the London golf courses would have had a comparatively easy task. He would have said that there were a few courses upon public c...

Now leaving the heather, we must turn to some of the other substances upon which Londoners play their weekly golf. On the course of the Mid-Surrey Golf Club in the Old Deer Park...

There is probably no other golfing centre that is quite so good as =Gullane=, in the East Lothian. If the golfer can only get up early enough in the morning, and has the strengt...

Of all the links in the north of England, =Hoylake= comes first on account of its historic traditions, the eminence of its golfing sons, and, as I think at least, its own intrin...

Of the many good courses in East Anglia, I have the tenderest and most sentimental association with =Felixstowe=, because it was there that I began to play golf. Till quite late...

With an open mind and a golfing friend I started in the month of March on a short pilgrimage to the courses of Yorkshire and the Midlands. Two rounds a day on a new course, to b...

Really to know the links of St. Andrews can never be given to the casual visitor. It is not perhaps necessary to be one of those old gentlemen who tell us at all too frequent in...

There is no country where the golfers are more keen or more hospitable than in Ireland, and the friendliness with which the inhabitants welcome their guests is only equalled by...

Gullane is usually cited as the headquarters from which it is possible to play the largest number of rounds in one day, each round being on a different course, but it is by no m...

The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are rich in many things, but are very decidedly poor in the matter of golf courses. I should be more precise if I said poor in their own...

I should like at the outset briefly to explain who I am and why I am writing this chapter. I am known to every golfer--I play fairly regularly, generally on a Saturday afternoon...