Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-08-08
how COLONEL DOGGY
CAME TO PLAY GOLF
Explanation OF Custom OF
Playing With An Imaginary
Opponent.

DOGGY! All who are not Of golf are
asking now what ia this game with n
peculiar name at which SO many peo-
Pile play. Even most of those who AVE
played the game for years are ignorant
as to it's origin and are constantly
curious about 1t. 1t is interesting.
For the benefit OF the former class
It may be stated in advance that the
simple system Of DOGGY play In golf is
that to each of the nine or is holes of
a golf curse a DOGGY value of strokes
is allotted. This DOGGY value may be
three, four, five. and sometimes-but
rarely-six. according to the length
and difficulties of the hole. If the "a
who plays against DOGGY plays the hole
from the teeing ground until his ball
is holed In fewer strokes than that al
lotted to the hole. he wins it from bo-
gey and scores a point.
If he plays 1t in he DOGGY number
he halves 1t with DOGGY. If he takes
more than the DOGGY number of strokes
he loses the hole n a point is scored
against him. On completion of h
round. a balance is struck and tho
players Ina score returned as so many
holes up or so many holes down. but
II he has won as many holes as he has
lost. h he is squar with DOGGY.
According to the players skill Il
number Of stroke Of handicap are Civ
en- to him in advance and he Is allowed
the advantage of an extra stroke at
certain specified holes. II he is a plus
scratch. he has to concede DOGGY
q stroke at a particular hole or
holes. 1t Is very simple and very ef-
fective and enables the player to carry
on a golf competition against many
IN tho ,~k,,~1l --..
them at the same time, while it has AN
advantage over ordinary scoring COM
petitions In that a player who does one
or two holes thoroughly badly has
merely a point for each scored against
him n is not necessarily out OF the
competition.
Enter the Colonel.
This year. after refusing officially to
recognize the DOGGY system of play, the
Royal and Ancient club, Of st. An
drews. has determined to give it proper
recognition and to make laws for it.
SO this season DOGGY may be said to
come into its own.
This way. says the London Daily Mail:
Toward the end of the last century
competitors of this sport came to b..
played IN some parts of Scotland.
chiefly at Ellie, but they were then
known as competitions against a
SSOAS WOAC ny III MEANS ire
auent and no proper name or rules
were attached to them. The real
DOGGY" or the colonel as the inn
aginary opponent with the fixed score
for each hole Is sometimes called. came
into being about the of 1890 n
the beginning of the following wear.
1t is generally accepted that a Gov
entry gentleman was the first to come
oy the germ of the idea. In Decem-
per. 1890, the scratch score Of the Gov
entry course was taken, being the. score
that a good scratch player would take
to each hcfe of the ground, making no
mistakes. but also fluking nothing nor
being fortunate with any snerial
flashes of brilliant play.
AT the time they called this 'the
afterward, when the members Of the
Tub had become properly accustomed
20 the idea, Mr.. Rotterdam offered -
prize for competition according to the
system: while later in the same year
.ne cluo rave a challenge cup for COM
system was established, but not the
name. which Is now universal.
me name. however, followed very
soon. and its origin was curious. <
rev members of the Coventry club paid
u visl. 70 Great Yarmouth. where the.
to DR.. Thomas Browne, R. n. VIII"
was honorary secretary Of the va
out Golf club. DIR. Browne liked
the idea exceedingly, and took it upom
nlnlselI TO write various prominent
golfers asking them their views "a tn
the ~advisability or otherwise oe i'm
this ground score system
INTO the general routine Of comnetItinn
goll; Fol the most part the answel.s
made were favorable.
Inspired by q SOM.
Then n day DR.. Browne ven. out
10 play against a friend, Major Charles
a; Weliman, and they agreed instead
to play each against the ground score
n decide their match according as
a Jared in this way. II 40 han
pened that o that time the boeey
nan song was being SUM by the late
=. .. Lonnen at the Gaiety theater
TOO. The words Of the refrain that
gave a creepy feeling to the chi,dra,,
Vt the day were:
Hush! Hush! Hush!
Here comes the DOGGY man!
SO nide you mead beneath the clothes.
He'll catch you Il he can!
.t There was the idea Of DOGGY in golf.
a. a shsa catch catch. you i he cant" And it
MAJ when he was playing this game
ground score. why" said he To HE
friend Browne. this player of yours
Is a regular DOGGY mani" 4 consids
araoae piece Of golfins history was
was from that moment established for
goir: Capital" said DR.. Browne:
we'll call 1t that" and he had h
name adopted by the Yarmouth club
some time afterward he went on a
golIing trip to the south coast, and set
forth to play n day on the course If
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