Allan Robertson - Golf's First Pro Tried to DESTROY the Future

Описание: Allan Robertson was the first professional golfer. He made featherie golf balls by hand in St Andrews, dominated every challenge match he played, and never lost. Then in 1848, a new ball made from rubber tree sap threatened to destroy his family's two-hundred-year-old business. His response? Buy them up and burn them. The fallout from that decision broke apart golf's greatest partnership, and set off a chain of events that led to the creation of the Open Championship.

This is the story of the golf ball wars, the birth of professional golf, and the man at the center of all of it.

CHAPTERS
0:00 — Cold Open
1:27 — St Andrews: The Center of the Universe
3:23 — The Featherie: Golf's First Ball
6:38 — Allan Robertson: The First Professional Golfer
11:32 — The Invincibles: Robertson & Morris
14:58 — The Guttie Arrives
19:28 — The Burning
23:37 — After the Fall
26:33 — The Birth of The Open Championship
30:30 — The Ball Keeps Changing
33:55 — Closing

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