The Man Who Brought Golf to Chicago and America
In the closing ceremonies at the 2012 Ryder Club held at Medinah Country Club it seemed as if everyone in Chicago was thanked for staging, attending and promoting the sports event in Illinois. But, in my opinion, perhaps the most important person in Chicagoland golf wasn’t even mentioned at any of the ceremonies, though he had a direct connection to 1) golf in Chicago and 2) Scotland, the site for the 2014 Ryder Cup to be held at the Gleneagles Hotel in Perth & Kinross, Scotland. Not only did this man first learn the game as a teenager at golf’s historic St. Andrews, he was the person most responsible for the game being played in the Mid-West before the turn of the last century…………. Charles Blair Macdonald.