Lessons from the US Open and the Kenya Amateur Matchplay Championship

A worker prepares the scoreboard along the 18th green at sunrise prior to a practice round before the U.S. Open Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, at the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y. [AP Photo/Charles Krupa]

On 4th October 1895, one amateur and ten professional golfers gathered to play the inaugural US Open golf championship.

It was not a noteworthy event and very few golfers in the US paid attention to the event. When the 120th edition of the US Open is played this week, millions of golfers from all over the world will be following the happenings at the Winged Foot Golf Club in New York.