Typical of Southern Hills enthusiasm for the PGA Championship was the way the club tried to dazzle the visiting writers. When 10 straight days of over-100° heat in Tulsa had left the press—as well as real people—worried about the weather for this tournament, Southern Hills decided to change it. They hauled in 100 tons of air conditioning for the blue-and-white-striped press tent, decorated the posts and ceiling wires with Christmas icicles, placed huge cardboard snowmen outside the entrance doors and ran around serving champagne breakfasts to the literati.
DAN JENKINS (1970)
With the NCAA men’s and women’s championships upon us, it’s been 125 years since the original college golf championships.
From May 12-14, 1897, Louis P Bayard Jr. won the first day individual title at Ardsley Casino in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
Day two consisted of semi-final team matches between Yale and Princeton and Harvard and Columbia.
Yale beat Harvard for its first of 21 championships by a score of 24 to 4.