Final Recollections, Horace Rumbold, Golf Illustrated - 1905

Herkomst: Golf Illustrated - 1905

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In the “Final Recollections of a Diplomatist,” by the Right Hon. Sir Horace Rumbold, Bart., the following perplexing passage occurs:

“I was introduced by des Graz, the kindest-hearted of men, to try for distraction the game of golf, which he had lately introduced at the Hague, and which has proved a solace to men in far greater trouble than mine. Although we never became proficient at golf, both my wife and I took to it very kindly and drove most days to the nine hole links which Baron de Briennen had laid out round his picturesque racecourse at Clingendaal. Golf became quite the rage in Dutch society at this time, and the fashion extended from the Hague to provincial centres. . . des Graz may well claim it as a feather in his cap that he was the first to introduce this fascinating pastime to their notice.”

The question arises: Was this really an introduction or merely a reintroduction after a sleep of centuries to Dutch Rip van Winkles?