MORE MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSES NEEDED [To the Editor of the
SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Here is a thoughtifor our twenty-nine Labour Councils, many of whom are about to meet for the first time. Of the twenty-nine, four only, according to the Golfer's Handbook, have publicly-owned courses. I wonder why ? They will all be eager for their municipal trams and swimming baths, and electric light, and gas, and water supply and for public parks. Have our municipalities forgotten the thousands of people who, sentenced for life to the inkpot and the typewriter, look to some outdoor sport for amusement, fresh air and exercise, yet cannot well afford the 8s. 6d. or 5s. generally charged for a game of golf ?
A municipal golf course is as essential to a large town as a public park, and one city has .laid out no fewer than four public courses, the charge being only is. 6d. a round (18 holes), or 2s. a day. Surely all these champions of the people who have just been elected up and down the country are not going to be content merely to follow in this questing
of public golf courses the natural enemies of municipalization ?
—I am, Sir, &c., JOS. COMPTON. House of Commons.
[We cordially welcome this suggestion. There is urgent need for the provision of more municipal golf courses in England. Scotland regards golf as a poor man's game, which it certainly is not south of the Tweed, with some exceptions.—Ed. Spectator.]
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