The Historic Timeline of Golf- Part Two

1. 1857 - First book on golf written - "The Golfer's Manual" by H.B Farnie.


2. 1860 - On October 17th, the first Open Championship was played at Prestwick, located at Strathclyde, Scotland. Willie Park, Sr. was the first winner.


3. 1868 - The first recorded hole-in-one was by Young Tom Morris on Prestwicks 8th hole during the Open Championship.


4. 1870 - Australia's first club, the Adelaide, was formed.


5. 1873 - First Club formed in North America, Royal Montreal Club, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.


6. 1884 - Oakhurst Club in Virginia is formed.


7. 1887 - The Foxberg Golf Club claims to have formed, claiming status as first Golf Club in United States.First instruction book with photos is published - "The Art of Golf" by Sir Walter Simpson.


8. 1888 - John Reid and Associates built 6 holes in Yonkers, N.Y. forming the St. Andrews Club. Another claimant to the distinction of being the first club in the United States.


9. 1890 - First resort golf club opens, the Hotel Champlain, opens in Bluff Point, New York.


10. 1891 - Shinnecock Hills Golf Club established.


11. 1892 - Shinnecock Hills Golf Club builds the U.S.A's first clubhouse. It is the first club to have a waiting list.


12. 1893 - Chicago Golf Club, U.S.A's first "designed" 18 hole course, by Charles Blair Macdonald.


13. 1894 - U.S.G.A. (United States Golf Association) formed with charter members Newport Golf Club, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, The Country Club (Brookline, Massachusetts), St. Andrew's Golf Club, and Chicago Golf Club.A.G. Spalding sells the first golf club made in the U.S.A.


14. 1895 - Charles Blair Macdonald becomes U.S.A's first Amateur Champion. Chicago Golf Club opens as first eighteen-hole golf club in America.First U.S. Open is played on October 4th, at Newport, Rhode Island. Won by Horace Rawlins with a $150 first prize. USGA forbids pool cue to be used by Richard Peters in the U.S. Amateur. Van Cortlandt Park, opens as America's first public course.


15. 1897 - "Golf" America's first golf magazine is published.Yale wins first collegiate golf championship.


16. 1898 - The term "birdie" is coined by Ab Smith at the Atlantic City Country Club, when he says to a fellow member that was a "bird of a shot". He suggested a double payoff for the hole.


17. 1899 - The Haskell ball is the first rubber cored golf ball invented by Corbin Haskell, Chemist from Cleveland, Ohio.George Grant was issued a patent for the "golf tee".The Western Open begins, making it the second event in the United States.

Thanks Bob H.