Live Auction 6021Origins of Golf: The Jaime Ortiz-Patino Collection
SOUVENIR BOOK ... ON THE OCCASION OF THE FIRST TOURNAMENT PLAYED BY THE PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. NEW YORK: NEW YORK NEWSPAPER GOLF CLUB, 1916.
Lot 257

SOUVENIR BOOK ... ON THE OCCASION OF THE FIRST TOURNAMENT PLAYED BY THE PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. NEW YORK: NEW YORK NEWSPAPER GOLF CLUB, 1916.

Closed30 May 2012

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SOUVENIR BOOK ... ON THE OCCASION OF THE FIRST TOURNAMENT PLAYED BY THE PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. NEW YORK: NEW YORK NEWSPAPER GOLF CLUB, 1916.
8°, illustrations, some full-page (title slightly soiled at corner). Original coloured pictorial wrappers (worn).

Specialist note

Under the influence of Rodman Wanamaker, a department store magnate, the P.G.A. of America was founded in 1916. This is the programme for the inaugural championship held 'at Van Cortlandt Park New York City July 18th and 19th 1916 ... under the auspices of the New York Newspaper Golf Club'. The result could not have been closer, James M. Barnes beating Jock Hutchison by one hole in the matchplay format.