[Ads-l] Earlier Citation for "Golf" Quotation

[Shapiro, Fred]

There have been some postings in the past about "golf is a good walk spoiled."  I think this citation is earlier than anything previously unearthed:

1899 _The Referee_ (Sydney, Australia) 12 July 1/7 (Newspapers.com)  Sam Loates, for instance, on being asked what he thought of the glorious game of golf, smartly said: "Well, I think it is a good walk spoilt."

Fred Shapiro

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