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Oub Housedub House of the Fairfield Golf Club, located on the north-east portion of the links, which lie south-east of the city.the help of his nephew. Charles C. Sampson, Dr. Clarke melted the tops from a few empty tomato cans, making them ready to be st t into the ground as “holes'* for the new game. Alter office hours, equipped with the club, the balls and the tin cans, these two novices fared iorth to play.At the post office the experimenters met Robert Louden, who joined the expedition and farther on the way C. J. Fulton and J Wilbur Dole were drafted for theigame. These five men proceeded to the “Larnson pasture. The cans were set into the ground and Golf began in Fairfield.First Club OrganizedMay 16, 18U2, the first Golf ol Fairfield, possibly the first Club of Iowa, was organized. Because this first Golf Club played near the banks of Crow Creek theOnClubGolfIndian name ol that stream was taken fur the name oi the club. Kahgahgee was Western, primitive, and rightly Ann rican.It is not possible to give a complete list of the original numbers oi this Golf Club. Robert Louden, holes and the grass, the trees, the sloughs, the stumps, combined to make it “sporty in the extreme. No artificial bunkers were built on any link. No attempt was made at any preparation of the grounds. Little wonder that most of thetime was spent in hunting lost balls. Balls were so few that none could be abandoned.One of the framed, early pictures. of unknown date, shows theuse of Club bags by Kahgahgeemembers, made necessary by theownership of four clubs. . Laterthere was the employment of boys as caddies. At this stage of development there must have been some thoughtlessly extravagant members of the club, for the minutes show a rule adopted: No oneallowed to pay a Caddy more than five cents for each round.The first casualty of the club life was the wounding of Mrs. Marcy. a ball rebounding from a tree split her nose open. Three stitches were required for the closing of the wound. Mrs. Marcy, to avoid the dangers of tlie links after this one experience, retired to private life.; i
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Fairfield Daily Ledger
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Mon, Oct 02, 1939
Page 17
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