When the United States Golf Association held the first national championships in October of 1895, at Newport Golf Club, the main event was the US Amateur, won by Charles B. Macdonald, a founder of the USGA. The Open was held the next day. It consisted of 36 holes - four times around Newport's nine-hole course. Eleven players entered, and the winner, Horace Rawlins, won $150 and a gold medal. From these modest beginnings the Open has become one of the great sporting events in the world and the ultimate challenge in golf.
- ISBN10 0195100492
- ISBN13 9780195100495
- Publish Date 13 June 1996 (first published June 1987)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 August 2002
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 411
- Language English