It was through the nineteenth Century that golf equipment in London boomed – roughly a dozen existed initially of the century, and 400 by the tip. Golf equipment normally turned much less louche, consistent with a brand new, Victorian curiosity in propriety. Most importantly, they took on a central function in British politics, and scores of political golf equipment had been based in central London in these years, in a swathe of town sure by Piccadilly to the north, Pall Mall to the south, St James’s Road to the west, and Haymarket to the east. A number of of essentially the most famend, party-affiliated golf equipment have endured to this present day. The Carlton Membership, the Conservative stronghold, based in 1832, was from the beginning a hotbed of gossip and political intrigue. The Duke of Wellington, at one time a member, suggested on his deathbed: “By no means write a letter to your mistress and by no means be part of the Carlton Membership.”
