2020 August Golf Memorabilia Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/9/2020
1899 USGA Women's Amateur Championship at Philadelphia CC Badge For Herbert Jacques - Rare
The USGA Women's Amateur started in 1895, and in 1899 the 5th annual installment saw Ruth Underhill claim the title 2 & 1 over Margaret Fox at the Philadelphia Country Club. Offered here is a rarely seen 1 1/2" diameter ticket has managed to withstand the test of time. It comes in highly presentable excellent condition with the original string still attached. A special and desirable 19th century relic, from the collection of 1909-1910 USGA President Herbert Jaques. The ticket reads as follows:
Front:
Women's National Golf Championship
Philadelphia Country Club
Oct 10 to 14, 1899
Back:
Issued to Madeira (Most likely Percy Madeira along with his wife prominent in Philadelphia and Women's golf at the time)
Introducing Herbert Jacques
Not good unless filled in by a member.
THE HERBERT JACQUES COLLECTION - USGA PRESIDENT 1909 & 1910
Noteworthy in the fact that this material is "fresh" to the golf collecting hobby, having recently been located on the upper East Coast. It's original owner was Hebert Jacques a renowned New England industrialist, architect and golf enthusiast. He was a member at The Country Club, Brookline, Massachusetts known as the first 'country club' in the United States which also had the acclaim as being among the first five founding members of the U.S. Golf Association. Jacques ascended to the 1907-08 Executive Committee of the U.S.G.A and became the eighth President of the organization in 1909-10. He remained ingrained in the administrative side of the game as the President of the Massachusetts Golf Association when Brookline hosted the 1913 U.S. Open. Long after his death in 1916, Jacques family was still highly involved in golf with his son Herbert Jacques serving as President of the U.S.G.A in the term 1933-34.
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