{"id":1371,"date":"2016-02-22T16:44:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/22\/history-museum-lecture-explores-states-golf-history\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:24:21","slug":"history-museum-lecture-explores-states-golf-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/history-museum-lecture-explores-states-golf-history\/","title":{"rendered":"History museum lecture explores state’s golf history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Scotland may have been where golf was first played, South Carolina now has a new claim to fame: the birthplace of golf in North America.<\/p>\n

In partnership with Furman University, The Upcountry History Museum is sponsoring a \u2018Lunchbox Learning\u2019 series to showcase interesting and unexpected aspects of South Carolina history. Wednesday\u2019s feature, held noon to 1 p.m., will discuss the evolution of golf in South Carolina. It will showcase never-before-seen documents dating back to 1739 proving the delivery of golf equipment to Charleston.<\/p>\n

This delivery pre-dates all other colonies, making South Carolina truly the \u2018first\u2019 in golf history. The lecture will also address South Carolina\u2019s early golf courses and other golf \u2018firsts\u2019 achieved in the state.\u00a0 The program will be led by Faye Jensen, Executive Director of the South Carolina Historical Society. The program is free to all faculty and staff with Furman ID and $3 for all OLLI members.<\/p>\n

For more information see the upcountry history museum website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although Scotland may have been where golf was first played, South Carolina now has a new claim to fame: the birthplace of golf in North America. In partnership with Furman University, The Upcountry History Museum is sponsoring a \u2018Lunchbox Learning\u2019 series to showcase interesting and unexpected aspects of South Carolina history. Wednesday\u2019s feature, held noon to 1 p.m., will discuss the evolution of golf in South Carolina. It will showcase never-before-seen documents dating back to 1739 proving the delivery of golf equipment to Charleston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}