Nickel Nassau

It seems, the golf “dogfight” started in the early 1930s, probably at East Lake CC in Atlanta. As they practiced it, anybody who wanted to play showed up, and were divvied up into teams, playing some form of best ball. The idea was to break up golfing groups that only played with each other (which is a little ironic).

The earliest reference to a dogfight at the Country Club of Birmingham was in 1934, and at that point was a standing event much like the one at East Lake (which had been going on since at least 1932). Dogfights as we know them today at the CCofB (with fixed memberships that play together at set times) started a few years later in the late 30s.