No High Heels 

(An excerpt from the 75th Anniversary Celebration booklet written in 1991 by Jim Valli) 

From The Southland Times, September 9, 1919:  

"A Queens Park player writes: 'Ladies! for the love of golf please realize that a putting green is as sacred as a tennis court or a bowling green, and high-heeled shoes are an abomination thereon. Some of the greens are pitted badly every playing day, and players are advised that the caretaker has the authority of the council to stop anyone playing in narrow-heeled shoes.  

Also, replace the turf. The inattention to this important first rule of golf is in evidence everywhere on the links, and it looks as if the players had made up their minds to shift the links of their own accord to the adjoining field. The scars are full men's size and cannot be blamed on the ladies. Will all players please take heed and let it not be said that this is the links where clubs are used as spades'."