1905 Wives complain of golf wrecking their lives

From the Los Angeles Herald, January 22nd 1905

"golf has insinuated its seductive form and paralyzed the enterprise and energy of the breadwinner."

The golf mania has reached that stage in the British isles where it seems to have justified the serious question whether the game is not having an injurious effect upon the domestic life of its devotees; or, to be more specific, whether it is not causing husbands to neglect their wives. The Weekly Scotsman, one of Edinburgh's most dignified Journals, has been publishing numerous letters from married women complaining that this is the result. Into too many households, we are told, golf has insinuated its seductive form and paralyzed the enterprise and energy of the breadwinner. The man who formerly gave his spare hours to self-improvement and the companionship of his wife and family now spends every available moment on the golf course. His once brilliant conversational powers, have given place, to the gossip of the club room; and when he does read it is only the books, magazines and papers that supply him with the small talk of his hobby that have any interest for him. Some women complain bitterly that they have sunk to the level of a mere housekeeper since the golf mania seized upon their husbands.