The history of St. Andrew's Golf Club is compelling and rich.  It is said that in February 1888, a Scottish sportsman named John Reid and several of his friends took an armful of clubs, some gutta percha balls and hearts full of enthusiasm to a pasture in Yonkers, NY for a friendly round of golf. There they knocked the balls around a three-hole "course."  Before long, these golfing pioneers had commandeered their own "clubhouse" - an old apple tree from whose gnarled branches they hung their coats and obligatory flasks of fine scotch whiskey. 

This was the birth of what was to become the oldest continuously existing golf club in the United States, The Saint Andrew's Golf Club, and those original players would become known as the legendary “Apple Tree Gang”, one of the proudest, most unique fellowships in American golf.  The history of Saint Andrew's is replete with “firsts” in American golf.  Saint Andrew’s hosted the first “open” championship and, along with The Country Club, the Chicago Golf Club, the Newport Golf Club and Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, was a founding member of the United States Golf Association.

Offered here is a rare 1938 First Edition of St. Andrew's Golf Club 1888-1938. Limited to just 500 copies is a detailed account of the first 50 years of the club that pioneered golf in the Unites States.  The book is in good condition with a tight spine.

Listed in Gilchrist's Guide to Golf Collectibles at $450.