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Excerpt from Spalding's Golf Guide, 1920 All of the important golf championships were revived in the United States during/ the season of 1919. The national amateur was played on the course at Oakmont, a suburb of Pittsburgh; the women s championship at Shawnee ou-the-delaware, and the national open at Brae Burn, a course of the Bos ton district. The latter, played ih June, was within the publication dates of the golf guide of 1919 and a complete summary and story of the con test appeared in that issue. It was a sensational struggle in which Walter C. Hagen of Oakland Hills, Detroit, won from Mike Brady by a single stroke, after Hagen had tied a five-stroke lead which Brady had established. Hagen's victory came to him in the play-off with 77 to 78, a finish which golfers never ceased to discuss the remainder of the season, especially those golfers who had been fortunate to see the competition. The sectional championships also were played. There was the Western open, the Western women's, the championships of the far-off Pacific slope, those of Canada, later the California schedule, and in the winter interest in golf on the Southern courses was far beyond records of other years, and very likely much exceeding the expectations of the originators of the various tournaments. For while it was surely anticipated that some day golf would be played with increased interest, as would become any sport which was being revived after the bitter experience of war, it seemed an optimistic thought, far too wide reaching, to imagine that it would more than recover its normal status in the very first year of peace. Yet it is truthful to say: that it did. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.