Joe - DT is probably right, but I'd suggest (to borrow from my own "In My Opinion" piece) the following:
"With this endorsement of personal religious experience, [William] James opened the door wide to emerging concepts about spiritual worship in daily life. In a sense, he gave a whole generation (and indeed, future generations) of religious seekers permission to abandon traditional places of worship — the churches, temples and synagogues — and to instead worship and seek spiritual nourishment wherever and in whatever way suited them best. Not surprisingly, many in the newly-minted Edwardian Age found that it was in Nature and in the natural world — so free from actual or perceived Victorian restraints — where they could most directly experience the divine Ground, where they could most easily share in the one Reality. Lying with a lover on the banks of the Thames could be as spiritual as a Sunday sermon in St. Paul’s Cathedral; and so too could a round of golf played in the misty silence, as the rain fell from low grey clouds draped over a sea-side links in Scotland like a shroud".
I think the James-Hultain-Behr-Murphy links are pretty strong; and, while the Bernard Darwins of the world (from what I've read by him) rarely or ever made such thoughts explicit, there was in his already elegant writing an undercurrent, a sense that "these great courses and this great game mean something -- it is more than a game, more than a field of play". And I think that feeling comes across the ages to us.
A peaceful and happy Christmas to you and yours
Peter