The USGA Experience and World Golf Hall of Fame present an evening with Mark Wagner, Ph.D., on Thursday, Aug. 15, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wagner's new book is "Native Links: The Surprising History of Our First People in Golf."

Based in Massachusetts, Wagner is a golf historian and the founding director of the Binienda Center for Civic Engagement at Worcester State University. He has published extensively on golf course architecture and history. In 2021, as he explored the history of Native-owned golf courses,Wagner began to realize there were many first firsts among First Peoples in golf, a game he has loved since his childhood outings in the Adirondacks with his family.

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