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Sylvanus P.
Jermain’s legacy to the golf world extends far beyond
Inverness Club, of which he was a founding member and the
first president:
He created the
Midwest’s first public golf course, and just the seventh
in the United States, at Ottawa Park in Toledo.
He wrote
the American Code of Golf, which modernized and simplified
the St. Andrew’s rules and was quite popular in the early
part of the 20th century.
Jermain was
the person most responsible for the 1920 U.S. Open being
played at Inverness Club. He was still active in the Club
when the Open returned in 1931. A member of the USGA’s
public links committee for many years, he served at
president of the Toledo District Golf Association from
1921 until just before his death in 1935. |
