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Rh Clubs were formed and professionals engaged, and a proof of the greatness of the game can be found in the fact that it is not easy, out of the innumerable number of clubs in England and Wales, to find one of them in anything but a sound financial position. In Warwickshire alone clubs and greens are to be found in Warwick, Coventry, Kenilworth, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Olton, Stratford-on-Avon, Ward End, and Atherstone. So great has been the demand for golf that it is doubtful if there is not at the present time more play on inland than on sea-side links. Fifty years ago, or even thirty, it would not have been difficult to find many golfers who had never played on any but sea-side links, and who would have scorned the idea of making any links on inland greens. So firmly established, however, is inland golf, that it may be interesting to compare the style of play on such links with those at the sea-side.

First it may be remarked that the two games are so different that a good inland player may find, that when at the sea-side he is entirely off his game for some considerable time, and his difficulties begin in their acutest form at