OED has 1890. _Outing_ 11/1896, "A Gossip on Golf", Horace G. Hutchinson p. 158/2 "If you are slicing or pulling the ball, so that it describes a curve, out of the vertical plane, in its flight, you may be sure that your clubhead at the moment of meeting the ball is not traveling in the line of flight which you wish the ball to take."