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The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. The modern game of golf is generally considered to be a Scottish invention.A spokesman for The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, one of the oldest Scottish golf organisations, said "Stick and ball games have been around for many centuries, but golf as we know it today, played over 18 holes, clearly originated in Scotland."
The Mystery of Golf by Arnold Haultain is published. The golf magazine The American Golfer is launched by Walter Travis. A dispute over the format of the competition leads to the cancellation of the golf tournament at the 1908 Summer Olympics. The Great Southern Golf Club was the first golf course was in Mississippi.
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George Clifford Thomas Jr. (October 3, 1873 – February 23, 1932) was an American golf course architect, botanist, and writer. He designed the original course at Whitemarsh Valley Country Club, outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and more than twenty courses in California, including Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades and Red Hill Country Club in Rancho Cucamonga.
Jack Nicklaus' Golf My Way is published and rapidly becomes one of the best-selling sports books of all time. Tom Weiskopf strikes a 420-yard (384 m) drive in the greenside bunker on the 10th hole at Augusta National—the longest drive in Masters history. Muirfield Village Golf Club opens from a Desmond Muirhead/Jack Nicklaus design.
The history of African Americans in golf, which began at Lincoln Park Golf Course (1935), Douglass Golf Course (1951), and the iconic T.O. Fuller Golf Course (1956), had not been told.
Aug. 1—In the early morning hours Sunday, Olympic medals were handed out in men's golf for just the fourth time in the 125-year history of the Summer Games. After a hiatus of more than a century ...
In 1962, Cleophus Sr. made history as the firm minority golfer to tee off at the newly desegregated Pine Hill Golf Course, a moment captured by photographer Ernest Withers and featured in the Tri ...