"the game of Scotland is in danger of deteriorating by some new fangled notions and artifices, which new players and Clubs are introducing with unreasonable keenness. The mania for record-breaking has discolored the purity of the game; distinction by scoring instead of matchplaying has weakened the spirit of the contest; and the substitution of force for scale and the corresponding alteration of the clubs and style, have lowered the standard of this fine art. Real golf, as played in Scotland during the 60s and 70s, is to some extent a thing of the past."
Reading the Golfer – What is Golf? (1889)
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