Shinnecock: A Crucial Link

THOSE WHO TRACE the history of golf in America must always come to Long Island. Those who seek the soul of the game must come here, too, and they have been doing so for more than 100 years. While the game, imported from the British Isles, had modest beginnings in several parts of the country as early as the 1870s, it was Long Island where its most fertile seeds were sown, where it grew robustly, where it set the standard for all golf across the country.

By Jeff Williams