Centennial : Texas Golf Association 100 Years

Texas held its first state golf championship in 1903, but nobody came.The scenario is not literally true, of course. For two warm days in May, forty-four gentlemen in woolen golf suits bustled around the Dallas Golf and Country Club. The three-year-old club had miraculously shoehorned eighteen holes, a clubhouse, and a place to park a horse and buggy on its fifty-five acres. Such coziness is unthinkable today; modern courses require at least three times old DG and CC's acreage. ?The links were fairly alive with players,? commented the Dallas Morning News. But not with spectators: the few who came out to watch this curious new game'new to Texas, that is? did so from the clubhouse porch, with binoculars, and while holding a glass of something cool.Sampson, Curt is the author of 'Centennial : Texas Golf Association 100 Years', published 2006 under ISBN 9781933285474 and ISBN 1933285478.