Guest George Petro joined Warren Rogan and host Connor Lewis on the TalkinGolf podcast for a discussion of golf’s “Blonde Bomber,” Craig Wood. Petro and Lewis are GHS board members. The podcast, No. 65 of Lewis’ TalkinGolf series, was a collaboration with Rogan and his Sports’ Forgotten Heroes podcast series. It aired on March 21, 2021, just before the 2021 […]

golf art –celebrating the 1921 U.S. Open 1921 U.S. OPEN AT COLUMBIA COUNTRY CLUB, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND – by Robert Fletcher By Frank Cantrel Jr. James “Long Jim” Barnes won our national championship in 1921 at Columbia Country Club by nine strokes, the largest margin in the 20th century until Tiger Woods’ 15-stroke margin at Pebble Beach in 2000.  Walter Hagen and host professional Fred […]

Bill Fields “GHS members appreciate the path to the present.”– Bill Fields April 2021By Sally J. Sportsman By virtue of his distinguished career as a golf writer, Bill Fields has met and written about many of the game’s greats, including Sam Snead, Gene Sarazen and Arnold Palmer. Fields’s small-town upbringing in North Carolina was a springboard to his opportunity to […]

Richard McDonough, (GHS member No. 01611) passed away Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Please click here to visit his obituary. To this we might add, from his GHS family, how much we appreciated his many contributions and articles on subjects close to his heart, from early magazine illustrations to original drawings, and dutch tiles and early paintings that portray kolf, or […]