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by Tony Dear

Golf in the Pacific Northwest has a rich history, full of characters, frontrunners, visionaries, boom-and-bust epics, and too-good-to-be-true (but mostly they really are true) tales.

This is the fourth in a series of articles, highlighting the people who have made this far corner of the continent our center of the golf universe, and have shaped the way we play the game.

Lists are dangerous things.

They are inevitably incomplete, subjective, and all-too-short. So here we go……

Chandler Egan

Born in Chicago in 1884, H. Chandler Egan attended Harvard University where he captained the golf team and won an NCAA individual title in 1902.

Two years later, he won silver at the Olympic Games in St. Louis, and the U.S. Amateur, a title he successfully defended the following year.

In 1911, Egan upped sticks and headed west to Oregon where he purchased a 115-acre apple and pear orchard near Medford for $75,000.

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