Point of Interest
Before the 1920 U.S. Open, golf professionals were not treated as the stars they are today. Inverness changed all of that by becoming the first club to allow professional golfers into the club house marking a paradigm shift in the way professional golfers would be treated forever.
As a gift for the boldness and generosity Inverness had shown, Walter Hagen gathered other professional golfers when the U.S. Open returned to Inverness in 1931 so that a gift could be purchased for the club. Together they purchased a grandfather clock for the club house which stands there to this day. On the brass plate of the clock an inscription was written that left no doubt concerning the shift that had happened just 11 years before:
- God measures men by what they are
- Not by what they in wealth possess
- This vibrant message chimes afar
- The voice of Inverness
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