Charles Crombie, 1905
The game’s canonical comedy, plate by plate.
Crombie’s medieval golfers suffering the rulebook literally — the rules change, the suffering doesn’t. The commissioning brand is flagged; the plates are sold as the art they are. Golf is the strict observance of a beautiful misfortune.
1905 · Britain
Regelementen van Kolf (The Rules of Kolf)
The eighteenth-century rulebook — the ancestor of every argument since.