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This Day in Golf History

A page that will list golf history, and the people and events that comprise it in the form of This Day in Golf or This Week in Golf.

This Day in Golf--Nov. 14

There are many contending clubs who challenge for oldest in the United States, but few have the legitimate background that the St. Andrews' Golf Club in Yonkers, N.Y. has. Some history sources credit its start on this date in 1888, founded at a dinner at John Reid's home. Reid is often called the Father of American Golf.

 

Cliff Schrock