Golf's hallowed ground.

Offers background on how Bethpage Black at Bethpage State Park in New York became the first public golf course to host the U.S. Open golf tournament. Money spent by the U.S. Golf Association to refurbish the vintage public course, which was designed by A.W. Tillinghast; Idea that public golf in America began at the 107-year-old Van Cortlandt Park Golf Course in New York City; Description of the course at Franklin Park in Boston, Massachusetts which was drawn up by Willie Campbell in 1896 at the park against the wishes of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, and Cobb's Creek Golf Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.