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Golf

From "Golf in California," 1900. Read Online Download PDF

Today, it is said that golf apparel combines good taste with comfort, but on the links in California, this wasn't always so. In 1900, writer Arthur Inkersley, described how wealthy golfers appeared to their more discerning fellow citizens, and the portrait wasn't a pretty one.

The every-day American looks with good-humored unintelligence upon the tartan caddie-bags, the queer clubs with strange names, the scarlet jackets, large-patterned knickerbockers, and gay stockings of the golfer. If he is that rara avis in terries, a genuine republican, he is inclined to regard with disfavor the caddie system, by which one freeborn American renders himself personally useful to another for hire—a thing that revolts the soul of your true-hearted democrat. He finds it hard not to smile when he sees stout gentlemen sweltering on a hot summer's day in California in garments of heavy homespun, which were intended to keep their wearers warm in an English November, or when he observes ladies no longer young or slim arrayed in showy plaids designed to relieve with a touch of brightness the gray hues of a Scotch landscape.

Arthur Inkersley's article "Golf in California" was published in the Overland Monthly.

–Contributed by Stefanie Lamprecht.