National Golf Links of America Members Handbook - ?National Golf Links of America…

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National Golf Links of America Members Handbook - ?National Golf Links of America…

National Golf Links of America Members Handbook - ?National Golf Links of America 1934-Shinnecock Hills, Long Island? published 1934 privately to include list of Officers, Constitution, Bylaws, House, General and Ground Rules, List of Founders and Associate Members - President Charles Blair MacDonald and treasurer A.M. Read in the original burgundy and white and gilt cloth boards some slight discolouration along the top edges of the pages and to the front and rear backboards otherwise internally clean, white part of the boards slightly soiled otherwise overall (F/G) Note National Golf Links of America is located on Long Island between Shinnecock Hills Golf Club and Peconic Bay and is noted for hosting the initial Walker Cup in 1922. The course was designed by Charles B. Macdonald, who had been schooled at St. Andrews in Scotland during the 1870s. When it opened in 1911, the course was called the National Golf Links of America because its 67 founding members, which included Robert Bacon, George W. Baxter, Urban H. Broughton, Charles Deering, James Deering, Findlay S. Douglas, Henry Clay Frick, Elbert Henry Gary, Clarence Mackay, De Lancey Nicoll, James A. Stillman, Walter Travis, and William Kissam Vanderbilt II, resided in various parts of the United States

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