Hampshire Country Club

Devereux Emmet (1862-1934) was a golfer and huntsman. For two decades, he routinely bought hunting dogs in the South in the spring, trained them on Long Island through the summer, sold them in Ireland in the autumn and spent the winter hunting and golfing in the British Isles. One such winter was devoted to measuring British golf holes for his friend C.B. Macdonald, who was then planning The National Golf Links of America. Emmet was a founding Member of The National. Naturally a talented golf...