Like the privy, I'd hate to be the person to use it after me...boy would I put that thing through the ringer...
My first stop? Both those 1894 US Ams whose results and contention gave rise to the USGA... Charlie went bullshit 2x and finally got his way, but I'd love to have seen it on those primitive courses (St. Andrews 4th Yonkers property NLE).
Next, I'd like to take in the 1911 US Amateur Final at Apawamis, won on the 37th hole by Harold Hilton when his flailed spoon (according to the preponderance of accounts) careened off the craggy buff (which still lords over the right side of the green with plaque affixed) to a certain birdie. Not only the drama of a historic turn like that, but the apprehension of Apawamis in those early days, when it was called the hardest course in America, later to be called by Ben Hogan, the "hardest short course in America." I think to early players, Apawamis was like a collaboration of Pete Dye and Desmond Muirhead. I maintain it still is - through many changes, growth and restoration - a course more worthy of study than 200 of the greats that are forever discussed.
Five years later and right down the street, I'd like to take in the 36 hole final of the first PGA at Siwanoy (1916) won by Jim Barnes over Jock Hutchinson... though if you gave more hours, I would go to the qualifying and matches early in the week...I'd love to see the cadre of ruffs, Scots and guys already making it into a profession that must have existed in those first years of what would be professional golf's hegemony down the line... And of course Siwanoy, another unheralded Ross gem that deserves 50x more ink than it does in these pages.