represent one over the par score for the hole. Berkhamsted Golf Club (Founded 1890) 1891 The Golfing Union of Ireland is founded on 12 October 1891 and is the oldest Golfing Union in the world. Shinnecock Hills Golf Club is founded on Long Island. The Royal Golf Club of Las Palmas in Gran Canaria is founded; it is the oldest Club in Spain. The Cannes Golf Club is founded in Cannes by Grand Duke Michael of Russia. The first golf club in the French Rivera. It is here that Michael taught Prince Albert to play golf. 1892 The Oakhurst Golf Club is founded at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. It hosted the Oakhurst Challenge, the oldest known golf tournament in the U.S. The Oakhurst Challenge Medal is recognized as the oldest known prize for golf in the U.S. The first hole at The Homestead survives from this course and is the oldest surviving golf hole in America. Glen Arven Country Club golf course established in Thomasville, Georgia USA; the oldest course still in use in Georgia. Gate money is charged for the first time, at a match between Douglas Rollard and Jack White at Cambridge. The practice of paying for matches through private betting, rather than gate receipts and sponsorships, survives well into the 20th Century as a "Calcutta," but increasingly gate receipts are the source of legitimate prize purses. The Amateur Golf Championship of India and the East is instituted, the first international championship event. 1893 The Ladies' Golf Union of Great Britain and Ireland is founded and the first British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship won by Lady Margaret Scott at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club. The Irish Ladies' Golf Union is founded and is the oldest Ladies Golf Union in the world. The Chicago Golf Club opens the United States' first 18-hole golf course on the site of the present-day Downers Grove Golf Course. The Chicago Golf Club moved to its current location in 1895. Victoria Golf Club is formed and remains the oldest course west of the Mississippi on its original site. 1894 The Open is played on an English course for the first time and is won for the first time by an Englishman, J.H. Taylor. Taylor, along with Harry Vardon and James Braid (together known as the Great Triumvirate) would dominate the Open Championship for the next two decades. The United States Golf