A group of sixteen golf patents, comprising: i) & ii) Harry Armitage, 1891, Patent No. 22,115; and John Page, 1893, Patent No. 19,854, both for appara

A group of sixteen golf patents, comprising: i) & ii) Harry Armitage, 1891, Patent No. 22,115; and John Page, 1893, Patent No. 19,854, both for apparatus for painting golf balls iii) Patrick Barry, 1896, Patent No.15,444, for casting hollow metal golf balls in aluminium or copper alloys, also for other sports balls, tennis, cricket & billiards specified iv) William Woodhouse, 1894, Patent No.21,332, metallic bottom or ''shoe'' to improve the durability of golf bags v) Peter Dick, 1902, Patent No. 27,878, for apparatus used in moulding golf balls vi) Samuel James Davies, 1906, Patent No. 7,882, the invention of a parlour table game of golf vii) Walter Spittle, 1906, Patent No. 10.349, a captive golf ball for practice indoors or outside viii) Joseph Longhurst, 1907, Patent No. 20,463, teaching aid designed to keep the elbows in the correct position during the swing ix) James Roger, 1907, Patent No. 3,641, improvement to the wound rubber core of a gold ball x) Alfred Powell, 1908, Patent No. 14,062, apparatus for the painting of golf balls xi) Maurice Groom, 1908, Patent No. 13,789, apparatus for repainting golf balls xii) Eyre Crowe, 1908, Patent No. 24,032, home practice apparatus to judge trueness of the stroke through a series of base markings xiii) William Thomson, 1908, Patent No. 16,925, golf balls with liquid, semi-liquid or semi-solid cores xiv) Samuel Bignold, 1909, Patent No. 26,413, golf board game xv) John Mullineux, 1910, Patent No. 9,433, mechanical devise for recording scores made at golf and other games xvi) Walter Bacon, 1910, Patent No. 1,431, improvements to a captive golf ball machine