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Mr. Andrew Mutch, USGA museum curator says (in December 1, 1963 issue of the New York Times) that Dr. George F. Grant, the first black graduate of Harvard College, and a dentist, was accorded recognition as the inventor of the golf tee.
Apparently, Dr. Grant didn't like getting dirty, and for the purpose of avoiding [a previously used] water and sand ritual, he made a small peg to be used for teeing up a golf ball (though there was no concave head).
He received a patent in 1899 but never mass-marketed his invention. It was strictly for his personal use and for his circle of golf mates.
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