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Presented In Entertaining Tale By Its Originator, Dr. J. F. ClarkeFirst golfers gatheredin spring of 1892, withone club between them• Ed Note: The following history of the Fairfield Golf Club is condensed from a paper written several years ago by Dr. J. Fred Clarke, and read before an anniversary meeting of the Club.)Early in 1892, Dr. Janies Frederic Clarke, on returning from Philadelphia, stopped in Chicago. He there saw some wooden golf clubs displayed in a State street window. Having just become interested in this game, new to the West,, through reading an article in Harpers Weekly, he purchased a wooden driver and three balls, with which to innoculate his Home town.After arriving in Fairfield, with*stance a wooden driver. Bv de-grees, enthusiasm developed and some purchased iron putters and still later, the extravagance of a lofting iron was indulged in by a 1 few.“Lamson’s Pasture*’At first there was no thought of renting grounds. 'Lamson’s Pasture*’ was and always had been a public Commons. The GolfCourse began on South Main street where* the residence of Lam-sons now stands, and extended tothe Crow Creek road. There1 wereseven holes and the names exhibit, in some cases, Greek erudition, in others the honesty of literal description. The named links were: Alpha, Diagonal, Long, Range. Stumpie Grassie, and Omega. The play was from Alpha to Omega and then returning west over the same course. This made in all fourteen
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Fairfield Daily Ledger
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Mon, Oct 02, 1939
Page 17
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