"Travers Defeats Travis in Fine Golf"
Newspaper article
By: The New York Times
Date: September 19, 1908
Source: "Travers Defeats Travis in Fine Golf." New York Times, September 19, 1908, 8
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Introduction
Although golf was played in the United States as early as the 1780s, it did not become extremely popular in this country until one hundred years later. The first U.S. golfing clubs were organized in the late 1880s, starting with St. Andrews golf club in 1887. Golf was largely an upper class game, enjoyed by those who had the leisure time to...
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