THE INTRODUCTION OF GOLF INTO THE UNITED STATES.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—In connection with the letter on " The Introduction of Golf into the United States " in your issue of August 25th, it may be of interest to draw attention to the article in Scribner's Magazine for July by Charles Evans, Junr. (" Chick " Evans, the golfer), on " Eighteenth Century Golf in America." Your correspondent suggests that no golf was played in the United States before 1888. Mr. Evans gives advertise- ments from Southern papers showing that there was a club in Charleston in 1795, and another in Savannah before the end of the century. These had little or no influence on the present development of golf, but it is interesting to note their existence.—I am, Sir, &c., W. M. T. Sackville, N.B., Canada.
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