US Am at Wheaton - 1912

[Jim_Kennedy]

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle ran a series of articles between August 14th and 26th, 1912 about the upcoming US Am at Chicago GC.
There are some drawings of every hole along with some interesting text, i.e.- who knew Des Mones Iowa was the "golfingest" city in America?  

There's also a discussion about lost vs OOB balls - a snippet from the accompanying article about Holes 10 & 11:



There are a few old-newspaper-quality photos, like this...  



...but the club did print a yardage book for the tourney, a page is shown here.  


 
The articles, hope you enjoy them:

Hole #1-
http://tinyurl.com/m6fla5j

Hole #2
http://tinyurl.com/mgo78sp

Hole #3-
http://tinyurl.com/lx8q272

Hole #4-
http://tinyurl.com/l725fwg

Hole #5-
http://tinyurl.com/jwdufmv

Hole #6-
http://tinyurl.com/mjzyw7v

Hole# 7-
http://tinyurl.com/kamjq6r

Hole #8-
http://tinyurl.com/lmf7hmq

Hole #9-
http://tinyurl.com/lxws8jm

Holes# 10 & 11 .
 http://tinyurl.com/mm4s5ls

Holes #12 through 14 - This is a two page format - scroll to the right to see the holes
http://tinyurl.com/n7xgr3m

Holes # 15 thrugh 18
http://tinyurl.com/mfpsbo5

[Scott McWethy]

Jim, these are fantastic.  Chicago GC is such a mysterious place and I love everything about it.  These were a fun read.  Thanks again for posting this.

Scott

[Bill_McBride]

Is this before or after the Raynor course replaced the original MacDonald course?   The 10th is much longer than today's Short hole, but the 11th is very similar to the par 5 of today, from what I saw at the Walker Cup. 

[Tom Walsh]

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/f?cdn,lhbtnbib:0:./temp/~ammem_Ubhz:

I believe some of these may be from that US AM. Check out Walter Travis talking to the press--

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?cdn:22:./temp/~ammem_Ubhz::displayType=1:m856sd=ichicdn:m856sf=s057850:@@@mdb=cdn,lhbtnbib

[John McCarthy]

The clubhouse burned down a week before the tournament,  but the show went on.


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70D11FA3A5E13738DDDAC0A94D0405B828DF1D3

[Sven Nilsen]

Is this before or after the Raynor course replaced the original MacDonald course?   The 10th is much longer than today's Short hole, but the 11th is very similar to the par 5 of today, from what I saw at the Walker Cup. 

Bill:

These are from about 10 years prior to Raynor's work.

Sven

[Jim_Kennedy]

An accounting of the event, by Henry Leach:

 http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/AmericanGolfer/1912/ag86d.pdf