Episode 4 covers the first golf professional in Texas: Mungo Park Jr., who designed the golf course at Galveston Country Club (the first country club) and served as its professional for a brief time. Because Park’s stay in Texas was short, this episode is a doorway into several hundred years of Scottish golf history — the links at Leith, the founding of the Gentlemen Golfers of Edinburgh in 1744, the first written rules of golf, the move to Musselburgh in 1836, the Park family’s Open Championship victories, and the rivalry between Musselburgh and St Andrews. Hear about the Texas connection to centuries of golf history in the latest episode of Wise About Golf.

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