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Show j Golf Played in Ireland I Three Centuries Ago Golf was played in Ireland 300 years ago, according to a discovery made by Joseph R. Fisher, member of the boundary commission. He has unearthed un-earthed records which show that Lord Montgomery, or plain Mr. Haigb as he was then, was granted land by King James near where the famous Newcastle links now are. Montgomery gave a site for a school on this land and records show that he alloted sufficient space for schools to "play at golf." The school and links disappeared during the troubled years of the Civil war and rebellion, in the latter half of the Seventeenth century. I |