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From: "Nan Brennan" <>
Subject: Golf is a holy sport!
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 19:19:02 -0500

Golf is a holy sport!

Found this on the Lisburn Historical page
http://www.lisburn.com/dromore-historical/Journal-1/journal-1-4.html

DROMORE'S GOLF CLUB

According to a book on Early Irish Golf, Dromore could once boast of having a golf course of its own! A newspaper report on the 10th January 1896, records the recent formation of a golf club in the town and is quoted as follows: "A new Irish club has been formed at Dromore, Co. Down. To be called the Dromore Club . . ." The President is given as Lord Arthur. Vice Presidents were Rt. Rev. Monsignor McCartan, Rev. Eamon Hayes and John R. Miniss. Captain was William Preston. The Golfing Annual 1895/96 states that the club was "instituted 28th November, 1895, the course, of nine holes, is situated on the old Loyola grounds . .

"When the order of Jesuits owned and occupied the old Bishop's Palace, they called it Loyola House. After their founder Saint Ignatius Loyola.

The club is listed in The Golfing Annual 1907/08 and in The Irish Golfer's Guide 1910, the club is recorded as 'believed to be extinct.'

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