Malcolm,
You might enjoy these excerpts from the Golf Club Suggestion Book by Duncan Ferguson & John Wilson. These were previously posted by Mark Chaplin here.
http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,47387.msg1058253.html#msg1058253"The dog situation on the course at weekends has now reached epidemic proportions. If owners are unable to train their dogs so that they stay with the match in which their owner is participating, may I suggest that they should be kept on a lead. Yesterday, play in my game was interrupted by a case of rape on the 3rd green, indecent assault on the 12th and a damn good fight on the 15th. As far as I know none of the dogs had paid a green fee"
The reply; Well-behaved dogs have always been welcome except on competition days. Poorly behaved or immoral one should be reported to the secretary. Royal St Georges
20 August 1933 - "That Mr Hunter's dog be destroyed. It attacked and bit me this evening at 6pm. I was walking outside the shop when it rushed at me from the garden of the ladies' clubhouse."
The suggestion book is reserved exclusively for the use of members of the Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club.
A further entry; That the above suggestion is an unwarranted piece of impudence. This is a members' Club and most members possibly prefer the presence of the dog to that of the aggrieved visitor. I heartily endorse the above. It only showed the dog's bad taste.