The Haunted Major.

Description:

"Inspired by the new craze for golf that had developed at the dawn of the 20th century, this comic story recounts the efforts of sports-mad Major Gore to beat Lindsay, a young golf champion. The Major receives supernatural assistance in his cause from the ghost of Cardinal Smeaton, a Scottish renaissance figure who is still nursing a grudge against his opponent's family." - - Description by Peter Haining, in "A Century of Ghost Novels 1900 - 200" (Appendix to his book, The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories)

subjects: Fiction,  Golf,  Golfers,  Tournaments,  Women millionaires,  Americans,  Ghosts,  Wagers,  Modern fiction,  Fiction - General,  General,  Classics,  Fiction, historical,  Scotland, fiction,  Fiction, sports,  Fiction, historical, general,  Golf stories,  Ghost stories

People: Cardinal Smeaton,  Major Gore

Places: Scotland,  Great Britain

Times: Written in 1902,  set at that time