Oakhurst Links White Sulpher Springs , West Virginia

In a small valley in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, a group of Scottish, English and American gentlemen gathered to play a game new to the United States. They laid out a nine hole course. The year was 1884 and the game, of course, was golf. They named the course "Oakhurst Links", after the estate of Russell Montague, where the course was designed. Over the years that followed, these neighbors would play regularly and compete annually on December 25, for the "Oakhurst Challenge Medal", which is recognized by the USGA as the earliest known golf prize in the United States.