Golf in California [pp. 387-398]

Overl~nd Monthly
VOL. XXXV May, 1900 No. 209
Photo by Pierce, I~cs Angeles
On the Links at Redondo
GOLF IN CALIFORNIA
Bv ARTHUR INKERSLEY
llE oldest golf-course in California, Cup at Monterey ill August of last year.
and one of the first in the United The Riverside Polo and Golf Club, uulikc
States, is at Riverside. The links most organizations of its kind, has the
of the Riverside Polo and Golf Club wem great merit of exacting little from its
laid o~ut in March, 1894, the names and ~nembers, the entrance fee being only five
distances of the nine holes being a's fol- dollars, and the annual subscription seven
lows and a half dollars. Riverside, from the
fact that so mauy Britishers of good educa1. The Goat 240 yards. tion and antecedents (I would write
2. The Grave.220 yards.. ~c
3. The Styx 1.20 y~~rds.. gentlemen," were it not that the term
4. Paradise 2: yards. 15 50 ludicrously abused in these United
5. The Valley 235 yards. States that it has ceased to have any mean6. Sudden Death 150 yards. lug) have chosen it as a place of residence,
7. Hades 145 yards.
S. Devil's Own 300 yards is much addicted to outdoor sports.
9. llorne 200 yards Though it has only eight thousand inhabit ants, it has three golf clubs the Polo
The amateur record, made by A. Butch- and Golf Club already mentioned, the
er in March, 189 S, is 39. The club numbers Rubidoux and the Pachappa Golf Clubs.
among its memilers that excellent golfer There are also private courses.
and polo-player, C. E.. Maud, who is presi- A little to the north of Riverside is' Reddent of the Southern California Golf lands, which has two golf-courses~that
Association, and wbo won the Del Monte of tile Redlands Golf Club, and that of the
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