Christian Golf Sect Organized

1905

Iowa Falls, Iowa, Aug. 17. — Golf and religion will be mixed for the benefit of body and soul by the members of a new sect known as "Christian Golfists" just founded by Rev. George Cady, one of the best-known Congregational divines in Iowa.

Dr. Cady, who is an enthusiastic golfer, manages to play the game, it is alleged, without using profane language when he makes a mighty swipe at the ball and fails to hit it, and he thinks he can induce some other enthusiasts to drop that most unnecessary adjunct. As a health promoter he declares golf beats the remedies proposed by Mrs. Eddy or Dowie.

"If you tack religion on to almost any enterprise you will soon attract a lot of followers," he said. "I don't know anything that needs an admixture of religion worse than does golf, and therefore I have decided to organize the Society of Christian Golfists."

—The Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN, Aug. 18, 1905, p. 9.