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Contents

New evidence suggests that the origins of golf in the Australian state of Queensland can be traced to a specific date: Tuesday, 14 June 1870. From his diary entry for that day, Scottish-born pastoralist James Ivory recorded: ‘… Tried my Golf practice for 1st time here.’ The ‘here’ to which James referred was a squatter’s run named ‘Eskdale’ in the Brisbane River Valley, near Toogoolawah – approximately 120 kilometres northwest of Brisbane on the Esk–Crows Nest Road. The book also records several false starts in the state’s north and west before recording Queensland’s first golf club, the North Queensland Golf Club at Townsville – and Brisbane’s first golf links, in the unlikely location of today’s inner-city suburb New Farm. The formation of various other early golf clubs is also discussed, including those in areas such as the Darling Downs and Ipswich, as well as in the northern centres of Gympie, Bundaberg, Mon Repos, Bagara, Gladstone, Charters Towers, and Rockhampton.