Posts Tagged ‘Early 1900s’

Today celebrates the sport of Miniature, or Minigolf. The origins of this sport can be found in St. Andrews Scotland. The Ladies’ Putting Club of St. Andrews was founded in 1867 and is still operating today. As the story goes, women had begun to develop an interest in the sport of golf, but social norms of the era deemed it inappropriate for women to perform such “violent” actions as a traditional golf swing requires.

By the early 1900s there were miniature golf courses all over Europe and America. Today, miniature golf is recognized as a competitive sport and there are tournaments throughtout the world. The biggest money tournaments are played in the United States, the most prestigious of these being the US Masters, played in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

The Salvation Army began in London, England in 1865. William Booth was a minister who decided to give up his parsonage and take his message to the poor and homeless. His original plan was to send converts to established churches, but that proved unsuccessful. What he found was that the poor, often disheveled and unwashed, were made to feel unwelcome in a traditional church setting. (more…)