Dear R J,
First of, to quote an oft-used phrase, my Dad is Mr. Young, please call me Phil.
I see that you read the first paragraph from my book. If you go to paragraph two you will see the following:
"There are many legends about where golf was first played in America, and this is but one. That this be true is only proper considering what the future would hold for this same ground. The August and September 1935 issues of the Farmingdale Post of Farmingdale, New York, would report it this way, "...They chose an apt place for their game, for 250 years later what probably are the greatest courses in America were laid out on the same spot, and the Bethpage State Park came into being."
As you can see I only stated my WISH that this be true, not that it was, citing it as one of "...many legends about where golf was first played in America..."
By the way, you can find these issues archived at Hofstra Ubiversity at the Long Island Studies Institute in Hempstead, New York. I spent many hours there researching the true backgrounds of the community, village and park that all have come to bear the name of Bethpage.
It was here that I found the newspaper accounts of ALL of the exhibition matches that Sam Snead played on the Black, not one of which he walked off.