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Sven Nilsen

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Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« on: March 10, 2014, 05:14:50 PM »
In 1934, The Pittsburgh Press ran a series of articles by Claire Burcky entitled "How Golf Came To Western Pennsylvania."  I am going to post each article below in this thread in the order they were printed.

Here's a brief synopsis of each article in case you're looking for anything in particular:

1.     Jan. 29, 1934 - The first course in Pittsburgh.
2.     Jan. 30, 1934 - Allegheny CC.
3.     Jan. 31, 1934 - Pittsburgh GC.
4.     Feb. 1, 1934 - A discussion of (a) the 1895 golf clothing, (b) an early American golf professional from PA and (c) golf balls.
5.     Feb. 2, 1934 - Edgewood CC.
6.     Feb. 3, 1934 - Edgeworth CC.
7.     Feb. 5, 1934 - Formation of the WPGA.
8.     Feb. 6, 1934 - First tournaments of the WPGA.
9.     Feb. 7, 1934 - Oakmont CC.
10.     Feb. 8, 1934 - Top Amateurs Eben Byers and William Fownes, Jr.
11.     Feb. 9, 1934 - Success of early Pittsburgh Golfers.
12.     Feb. 10, 1934 - Olympic Cup competitions.
13.     Feb. 12, 1934 - Early West Penn golf team matches.
14.     Feb. 13, 1934 - Eben Byers.
15.     Feb. 14, 1934 - Early Pittsburgh professionals.
16.     Feb. 15, 1934 - William Fownes, Jr. 1910 "Slam."
17.     Feb. 16, 1934 - Development of West Penn Golf Association.
18.     [Missing.]
19.     Feb. 19, 1934 - 1919 U.S. Amateur.
20.     Feb. 20, 1934 - 1921 Junior Golf Championship.
21.     Feb. 21, 1934 - James Crookston of Stanton Heights.
22.     Feb. 22, 1934 - Gene Sarazen.
23.     Feb. 23, 1934 - Pittsburgh and 1922.
24.     Feb. 24, 1934 - The 1925 US Amateur at Oakmont.
25.     Feb. 26, 1934 - William Fownes, Jr.
26.     Feb. 27, 1934 -  Professional and Amateur golfers in the WPGA.
27.     Feb. 28, 1934 - 1927 Open at Oakmont.
28.     Mar. 1, 1934 - Carl Kauffmann.
29.     Mar. 2, 1934 - District Senior Golf Championships.
30.     Mar. 3, 1934 - Development of public golf courses in Pittsburgh.
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Joe Bausch

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2014, 06:01:00 PM »
Good stuff, Sven.

Let me know if you need any help gathering the rest.
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Sven Nilsen

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2014, 06:22:42 PM »
Joe:

Amazingly enough, the entire set just showed up in my inbox.

Sven
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Joe Bausch

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2014, 08:10:33 PM »
Quote from: Sven Nilsen on March 10, 2014, 06:22:42 PM
Joe:

Amazingly enough, the entire set just showed up in my inbox.

Sven

Beautiful, man!

Stop screwing around and post them.  ;)
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astavrides

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2014, 08:21:50 PM »
Interesting to read about South and North Park, both of which I played as a youth. Thanks.
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Sven Nilsen

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2014, 12:26:26 AM »
Here's the first article from the Series.  Thinking its probably best to do everything in order, so I'll move the articles above into their proper places as the thread goes on.





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Sven Nilsen

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2014, 12:28:01 AM »
Number 2 in the Series.



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Sven Nilsen

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2014, 12:33:17 AM »
Number 3.



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Sven Nilsen

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2014, 12:38:31 AM »
Number 4



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Sven Nilsen

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2014, 12:50:36 AM »
Number 5.



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Sven Nilsen

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2014, 01:08:34 AM »
Number 6



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Phil Lipper

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2014, 08:57:26 AM »
Not quite in Pitt but certainly western PA is an Donald Ross course named Bedford Springs in Bedford,PA. The Springs is a Homestead type resort that recently underwent an major renovation with the golf course as the focal point. Its a good golf course with one of the hardest par 3's this side of PV.
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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #12 on: March 12, 2014, 09:39:39 AM »
Number 7 -


                                                          
                                                          
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Sven Nilsen

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2014, 09:43:30 AM »
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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #14 on: March 12, 2014, 10:53:54 AM »
Number 9 -



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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #15 on: March 12, 2014, 11:49:56 AM »
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Sven Nilsen

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #16 on: March 12, 2014, 06:19:35 PM »
Number 11 -

As noted by a lurker, Burcky mistakenly claims Travis as the first two-time U.S. Amateur champion.  This honor belongs to H.J. Whigham in 1896 and 1897.




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Sven Nilsen

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #17 on: March 12, 2014, 06:22:39 PM »
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Sven Nilsen

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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #18 on: March 12, 2014, 06:24:22 PM »
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Re: Development of Golf In Western Pennsylvania
« Reply #19 on: March 12, 2014, 06:26:19 PM »
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« Reply #20 on: March 12, 2014, 06:27:56 PM »
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« Reply #21 on: March 13, 2014, 12:50:01 PM »
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« Reply #22 on: March 13, 2014, 12:53:07 PM »
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« Reply #23 on: March 13, 2014, 12:54:37 PM »
The 18th in the series appear to be the only one I have not been able to access.  Going to leave this here as a placeholder in case it pops up.
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« Reply #24 on: March 13, 2014, 01:04:34 PM »
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