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Inverness Club, USA
'The Clubhouse'
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This artwork is printed as the highest quality Giclée Print which is a printing process specially tailored for fine art applications and produces outstanding print results from the original work. Artworks are printed to order in the UK, USA, Europe & Australia with gallery quality prints dispatched worldwide to buyers within 3-4 days. The print dimensions are 29.7 x 42.0 Cm [11.7 X 16.5 Inches].
“The Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio, displayed pioneering inclusivity when during the 1920 U.S. Open, Inverness members, in a ground breaking gesture, opened their clubhouse to professional golfers, who were previously restricted from entering. The club is also the birthplace of the Ryder Cup idea where S.P. Jermain, the club’s founder and first president, is credited with conceptualizing the international match-play competition that became the Ryder Cup.”
Description
INVERNESS CLUB Established in 1903 is located in Toledo, Ohio, in the USA. The Club was founded in 1903, when many of Toledo’s wealthiest citizens purchased a parcel of land and built a nine-hole golf course. In 1916, the club hired Donald Ross to construct a championship calibre 18 hole golf course, which was finished by the end of 1918. Surprisingly before 1920 in the United States, visiting golf professionals were prohibited from entering the clubhouse, but by 1920 attitudes had begun to change. Sylvanus Pierre Jermain considered ‘the father of public golf in Toledo’, lobbied the USGA and the members of Inverness to agree to allowing all players, including pros, into the clubhouse at the upcoming 1920 U.S. Open: Both parties agreed, and the Inverness Club became the first golf club in the U.S. to allow pros. in the clubhouse. continued..
