1871 in golf

Weeks

No championships in our record for 1871.

1871, drawn the way the papers pictured golf then: a wood engraving.

The year, week by week

Each dot is a championship at the week it finished. Click a dot for its front page, or a week to see it on the world.

This week

Every championship of 1871 in our record, in full

No championships in our record for 1871.

Year in Review

1871 in golf: the year in review

No championships in our record for 1871.

To be written The synopsis of 1871: 150 to 250 words on the season’s story, its turning points and why it mattered, written from sourced research.

Players of the year

To be written Who defined 1871: their wins, their near misses, and what the year meant for their career.

Firsts, records and farewells

To be written First-time major winners, scoring records, youngest and oldest champions, last appearances, events played for the first or last time.

The game in 1871

To be written Equipment, rules and course changes, prize money, television and the business of golf that year.

Every count above is from Golf Network News’s record; the parts marked “To be written” are filled only from sourced research.

How this page works

Every championship here comes from Golf Network News's own record: the rooms for the majors, the women's majors, the amateur championships and the team cups. A part that says it is not yet researched is exactly that. We fill it from sourced material, never with a guess.

The picture at the top is drawn in code for each year. It is printed the way golf was printed that year: wood engravings before 1900, newsprint halftones to 1945, hand-tinted plates to 1969, colour film to 1999, and digital light since. The names engraved in the numerals are that year's champions.

Every view has its own address: the year, the tours, the event and a traced champion are kept in the link, so you can share exactly what you see.