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1886
Born This Year
Jim Barnes (4-time major winner)
Men's Major Championship Winners
British Open: David Brown
Amateur Champions
British: Horace Hutchinson
1887
Born This Year
Jerome Travers, 1915 U.S. Open winner, 4-time U.S. Amateur winner
Born This Year
Jerome Travers, 1915 U.S. Open winner, 4-time U.S. Amateur winner
Men's Major Championship Winners
British Open: Willie Park Jr.
Amateur Champions
British: Horace Hutchinson
1888
John Ball wins the first of his record eight British Amateur championships.
John Ball wins the first of his record eight British Amateur championships.
A golf club in Antwerp is the first in Belgium and the second in continental Europe.
John Reid, a Scotsman living in New York, builds three golf holes and
promotes the game to friends. He and others form St. Andrew's Golf Club, which is generally credited with being the first longlasting club formed specifically for golf in the U.S. It's still in existance, making it the oldest continuously operating golf club in the U.S.
Men's Major Championship Winners
British Open: Jack Burns
Amateur Champions
British: John Ball
