Batavia Golf, Singapore Free Press, 11 september - 1894

Herkomst: Singapore Free Press, 11 september - 1894

Club: Batavia GC

Transcript:

Golf has entirely “caught on” here.
The Club which I reported as having been started early in the month has had a great deal more success than could possibly be looked for. It now numbers 25 members; the course is in very playable condition, and after the next wet season the green will be as good as any in Singapore.

We can claim a respectable sort of ancestry for most of our Clubs here—when comparing their ages with any of those in your city. This present Golf Club is simply a resuscitation after a great many years of a band of Englishmen that formed themselves into the Batavia Golf Club so far back as 1872. Some of the members’ names, if not known at present, are well remembered in the East. The Committee was formed of what must now be (if alive) very old stayers. A. Gray was Captain, T. C. Wilson, Honorary Secretary, and the original members were C. C. Balfour, A. T. Carmichael, J. B. Clark, G. A. Maclaverty, E. C. Ross, A. J. Warren, F. C. Bishop and G. W. Brown.

This Club had not a very prolonged life (more luck to its successor) but it left behind it some interesting relics. The uniform was a scarlet coat with brass buttons, and the rules add “which must be worn on all occasions of Golfing.”

Here’s a valuable suggestion for the Singapore Golf Club.