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Robert Sommers The U.S. Open Golf's Ultimate Challenge
Atheneum Books 1987 0689115253 / 9780689115257 Hardcover Very Good
"tight, small price label on front fly page, price-clipped dust jacket has light rubbing and creasing to edges() 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 thirty-six 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. In this new edition of The U.S. Open: Golf's Ultimate Challenge, veteran golf writer Robert Sommers provides the definitive history of this glorious event. Sommers follows the Open year by year--and often recounts historic rounds hole by hole--as he captures the drama of golf's greatest championship. Sommers provides memorable portraits of all the ID: mon0000091950"
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