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...very first Big Three golf match between Harvard, Yale and Princeton took place in 1897 and immediately began a keen rivalry that has been passed down to the present. Those early matches attracted a good deal of national attention. The pro ranks had not nearly attained their present stature. Many of the nation's leading amateurs were matriculated in the training school of Big Three golf...
...stakes for collegiate players were much higher at the turn of the century, when golf was an infant sport in America played by well-bred, easy-going elite at a handful of schools. Whichever of the three Ivy powerhouses prevailed became the United States Intercollegiate Champion. The Big Three medalist was enthroned as that year's individual Intercollegiate Champion...
Yale was the first college in the country to have a golf team. It was organized by John Reid Jr. His father had founded the first golf club in the United States in Ardsley, N.Y., borrowing the illustrious name of the St. Andrews Golf Club. A dinner at the Reid home in 1888 marked the inception of the St. Andrews Golf Club and broke up the strains of Scots...
John Reid and his clan of golfers at St. Andrews in Yonkers are known to posterity as the Apple Tree Gang. Reid had emigrted from Dumfermline, Scotland, the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie, who later became member of St.Andrews. Reid was on hand at the historic moment when the first golf ball was struck on American soil. After his friend Bob Lockhart had brought over a set of clubs from Scotland, he tried them out in New York City on 72nd Street near the Hundson River, which is now Riverside Drive...
...under a martinent coach by the name of Robert D. Pryde. Both in 1897 and 1898, the three colleges played at St.Andrews in Ardsley. Pryde was born in Tayport, Fifeshire, Scotland, only seven miles from the original St. Andrews. In 1895, he laid out the New Haven Golf Club, which became Yale's home course and soon had its name changed to the Yale Golf Club. Pryde served as the club professional for 41 years until it was superceded by Charles Blair McDonald's breathtaking Yale Golf Course...