November Thoughts
November 14th, 2009
From the November issue of Golf Digest:
“November 29, 1894. The Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling serves Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle a Thanksgiving dinner at his Brattleboro, VT home. To say thanks, Doyle gives Kipling golf lessons during the visit, and the two later play winter golf using red golf balls.”
My word, golfing, Sherlock Holmes, cranberry sauce and Mowgli all in one place? What I wouldn’t have given to be a fly on the wall. Can one even imagine what conversation these two masters of fiction must have had, as fortified by turkey and oyster stuffing (and no doubt a dram or two) they went out to the snow-covered links? Who wouldn’t want ACD as one’s golf pro?
Why, I wonder, doesn’t Brattleboro have a Captains Courageous Classic, or a Sherlock Holmes Open? We’d on our plus fours and Norfolk jackets and carry our hickory clubs. It would be only for those hardy enough to handle a November game in Vermont. Do they still make red balls for winter play? Then later, it’s back to the clubhouse for pumpkin pie and another wee dram!
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