On This Day |
| 1, 1938: | United States Golf Association (USGA) rules that golfers can carry a maximum of 14 clubs around a course. |
| 5, 1937: | The Royal & Ancient Club rejects the 10-club limit that is later invoked by the USGA. |
| 10, 1971 | PGA European Tour is established. |
| 13, 1933: | Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia opens. |
| 14, 1916: | USGA announces that golfers who promote the sale of golf goods will lose their amateur status. |
| 17, 1916: | New York golf professionals and prominent amateurs meet to discuss formation of a organization for promoting golf in USA. |
| 23, 1951: | USGA decides to allow women competitors to wear shorts in USGA sponsored championships. |
| 1, 1927: | The R&A Golf Club of St Andrews announces its support of a lighter, bigger golf ball, but no final decision is reached. |
| 3, 1504: | King James IV plays golf's first "officially documented" match with the Earl of Bothwell. |
| 6, 1971: | Alan Shepard becomes the first man to hit a golf ball on the moon, using a specially designed 6 iron. |
| 7, 1928: | French golfers vote to sentence a blackbird to death for stealing 30 golf balls from the Saint-Germain course near Paris. |
| 11, 1502: | The ban on "golfe" is lifted unofficially when King James IV signs the Treaty of Glasgow to make peace with England. |
| 17, 1883: | The R&A and Town Council propose to build a second 18 hole course at St. Andrews, to be called the New Course. |
| 1, 1947 | The USGA revises the Rules of Golf, reducing the number from 61 to 21. The R & A makes no changes. |
| 4, 1920 | The R & A holds the first committee meeting since becoming the ruling authority for the Open and Amateur championships in Britain. |
| 22, 1934 | The first day of the new Augusta National Invitational Tournament (known as The Masters from 1938) is played. |
| 25, 1934 | The first Augusta National Invitational Tournament is won by Horton Smith. |
| 1, 1938 | The Augusta National Invitational Tournament is officially remaned as "The Masters". |
| 2, 1744 | The first official tournament played on the Links of Leith is won by John Rattray. |
| 3, 1891 | Muirfield Golf Course, home to The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, first opens for play. |
| 17, 1867 | Grand Golf Tournament of Professional Golfers takes place on Leith Links. |
| 30, 1978 | The Ryder Cup becomes US vs Europe after more than 50 years as a match between the US Great Britain and Ireland. |
| 3, 1927 | First Ryder Cup matches take place at the Worcester Country Club, Massachusetts. |
| 8, 1960 | Australia's Kel Nagle wins his only major title - the British Open at St Andrews. |
| 20, 1986 | Australian Greg Norman wins his first British Open title at Turnberry |
| 6, 1972 | Gary Player wins his second USPGA title at Oakland Hills. |
| 12, 1973 | Jack Nicklaus takes his third USPGA title. |
| 1, 1895 | Participants in first US Amateur Championship compete for a trophy donated by USGA president Theodore Havermayer. |
| 12, 1999 | GB and Ireland win the Walker Cup at Nairn, Scotland, for only the fifth time since the tournament began. |
| 23, 1868 | First recorded hole-in-one is scored by Tom Morris, Jr. on the eight hole at Prestwick during the British Open. |
| 2, 1992 | First day of the second Solheim Cup competition, later won by the European team for the first time. |
| 5, 1889 | Birkdale Golf Club is officially opened. |
| 14, 1916 | Inaugural USPGA Championship is won by Cornwell - born Jim Barnes. |
| 17, 1960 | First professional golf championship is held at Prestwick Scotland, and won by Willie Park, Sr. |
| 23, 1994 | US women's team wins the Solheim Cup for the second time. |
| 14, 1888 | First US golf club, St Andrew's, is founded in Yonkers, New York |
| 18, 1990 | US team beats Europe team in inagural Solheim Cup competition. |
| 7, 1929 | Leo Diegel wins his second USPGA title |
| 22, 1894 | Representatives from US golf clubs meet to discuss formation of United States Golf Association. |