Spectators have followed the game since its beginning.  As with all sports, people want to see the action.  Here we have a gallery following a match headed by Freddie McLeod, August 31, 1908.  McLeod  came to the U.S. from Scotland in 1903, and the principal achievement of his career was his victory in the 1908 U.S. Open at Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.   He was tied with Willie Smith after four rounds, and won the playoff, 77 to 83.  McLeod was five feet four inches tall, and at the end of the tournament he weighed 108 pounds, making him the smallest man ever to win the title.  Two days after the win, he played a match with Alex Smith, the brother of Willie (at least that is my surmise given the labeling of this Library of Congress image), although it is not clear if this is the same course.  McLeod competed in the U.S. Open twenty-two times and finished in the top-ten eight times.   He acted as an honorary starter at the Masters tournament from 1963 to 1976, and was a member of the group of senior professionals which established the senor division of the PGA in 1937, winning the event himself in 1938.