Arthur Hesketh Groom
Arthur Hesketh Groom (1846–1918) was the founder of the Kobe Golf Club, Japan's first golf club. Groom came to Japan in 1868 and became a long-term resident of Kobe. He was a known outdoorsman and mountaineer, and it is his appreciation for the local mountains near Kobe and a lament that golf was unavailable in Japan that led him and a group of friends to found the Club.[1]
References[]
- ^ Golf Club Atlas - "Gliding Past Fuji - C.H. Alison in Japan", retrieved February 16, 2007
See also[]
- Anglo-Japanese relations
- List of people with surname Groom
Categories:
- 1846 births
- 1918 deaths
- Japan–United Kingdom relations
- Japanese golf biography stubs