3-028-435 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Golf near the scene of Gray's "Elegy": the seventh green of the new Stoke Poges golf course, 1909. 'The work at Stoke Poges was started as recently as last November, but the course is already fit for play, The club will be opened on Monday next, the 12th, when J. H. Taylor, the open champion, J. Braid and Arnaud Massy, ex-champions, and J. Sherlock, the club's professional, will start for the stroke competition, The club house was built by John Penn, a grandson of the William Penn who founded Pennsylvania, in 1790, and he, too, laid out the garden'. From "Illustrated London News", 1909.