227:). MacAndrew told the club president he would have to purchase an alternate site, and the club acquiesced by obtaining land on the Whitworth estate near West End Avenue at Bowling Avenue in Nashville. MacAndrew returned to lay out and build a nine-hole course. After completion, he returned to Dayton, where his fifth child (Robert) was born. In 1902, the Nashville group requested him to return, this time as their permanent golf professional and greenskeeper. He moved his family to Nashville, where his sixth child (John) was born.
281:. He won the Massachusetts State Caddie Championships in 1918 and 1919 and competed in the U.S. Open in 1926 and 1927. Jock and Charles, both under 19, shot 70 and 71 respectively in the qualifying round of the Massachusetts Junior Championship in 1924. Jock died at age 24, of internal hemorrhage from ulcerative colitis;
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for a new country club called the "Nashville Golf and
Country Club" in 1901. Nashvillians were becoming interested in golf, but there were only crude golf courses available then, some with holes of only 50 yards. A group of prominent citizens had aspirations of forming a golf-based country club with
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There was an increase in the popularity of golf in the U.S. about this time which fueled demand for golf course construction. MacAndrew's career timing could not have been better. He developed a reputation as golf course designer and golf instructor, and quit work in golf club manufacturing to
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England Open in 1931. Nearly 500 guests attended "Charlie MacAndrew Day" ceremonies on August 4, 1951 and established the annual "Charles MacAndrew Memorial Golf Tournament" in his honor, first played in 1953. In 2018, the MacAndrew Memorial 65th tournament was
180:, Scotland, in 1869. He had an eighth grade education. His wife was Mary Lamond Murray (1872–1930) who died at age 58. MacAndrew had eight children: Agnes, Mary, James, Charlotte, Robert, John, Charles and Ruth. He became a U.S. citizen in 1918.
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a golf course rivaling the quality of those in
Scotland; they hired MacAndrew to design and build it. When he arrived in Nashville, MacAndrew rejected their chosen site at Cumberland Park (later the site of
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sportswriter Tony
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MacAndrew's grandson Donald Jock MacAndrew (Jock's son), became a thoroughbred horse jockey. He rode "Saggy", the horse that famously defeated the previously unbeaten
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267:(1901–1963) was the golf pro at Mount Pleasant Golf Club in
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968:"A Harford horse racing upset that stands for the ages"
788:. Vol. 114, no. 11. July 11, 1928. p. 22
637:"Trade catalogs from Crawford, McGregor & Canby Co"
841:. Vol. 104, no. 11. July 11, 1923. p. 9
813:. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 1027.
515:. Rochester, New York. December 30, 1897. p. 13.
454:. Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Press/Providence House.
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176:MacAndrew was born in St Andrews,
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888:"MacAndrew Feted at Country Club"
609:Roberts, Carl V. (July 4, 1976).
419:"News of the Golf World in Brief"
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966:Vought, Allan (April 14, 2013).
939:Bishop, Bish (August 25, 1962).
723:. The Historical Marker Database
478:Rice, Ada Scott (May 12, 1901).
662:Sheffer, Tony (June 15, 1930).
480:"Society: The New Country Club"
246:A family of golf professionals
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417:Graffis, Herb (May 1, 1951).
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