Excerpt from Golf Greens and Green-Keeping

The object of this book is to help the Green Committees, greenkeepers, and all who have to do with the formation and upkeep of golf links and courses. Not very many years ago it used to be said and thought that golf, in the proper sense of the game, could not be played, or certainly could not be enjoyed, anywhere except at the seaside, on soil of that formation which is specially called links. Links is always, so far as I have seen, ground made by what a golfer, who had that little knowledge which is such a "dangerous thing", called "adipose deposit." He meant "alluvial deposit." This alluvial deposit, as is well known, is formed by the debouchment of a river into the sea, and the silting up of sand as the tides meet the river's outflow. Then the winds blow more sand into heaps, marram grass grows on the heaps and binds them together, and thus, as the wise geologists tell us, Providence made golf links for the use of man.

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