Three Washinton, D.C. municipal golf courses are to receive operating help from the National Links Trust, according to a story posted by Tim Gavrich on the GolfAdvisor.com website. One of them, Langston Golf Course, is home to the Wake-Robbin Golf Club, the nation’s oldest golf society for African-American women, founded in 1937 (see photo below, courtesy National Links Trust). Click […]
Author Archive: Jim Davis
pga’s no-dimple experiment harkens to golf ball’s distant past
In late June the white-coats in Titleist’s R&D labs thought to produce, for whatever reason, a dimple-less golf ball and ask tour pros to hit the thing. What would it do? How would the pros react? Most GHS guys, and the hickory golf guys, too, know exactly what would happen. And, as the video below shows, it did. The professional […]
golf art – week of July 12, 2020
Original oil by J.F. Kernan By Frank Cantrel Jr. The world of golf art includes many colorful illustrations created by such artists as Norman Rockwell, Charles Dana Gibson, Howard Pyle, JC Leyendecker, and J.F. Kernan. These paintings were created to be reproduced in magazines and newspapers, as posters, advertisements, and on products such as greeting cards and calendars. “With illustration […]
persimmon woods get some love
The older persimmon woods had a life, a balance, and beauty all their own. Classic MacGregors, Wilsons, Spaldings… they can still be found and makers such as Louisville Golf turn out some modern classics, too. Writer Shawn Allen talks about persimmon drivers in a recent edition of the Morning Read and feels they still have a place in the game. […]
usga acquires schickler photo collection
GHS member Howard Schickler’s passion for photography was featured in GCS Bulletin No. 209 (December 2016). Long fascinated with the history and wonder these photos portray, Schickler scoured auction sites and bought, sold, and traded with fellow collectors to amass one of the finest troves of golf photography in the world. A story on the sale of this collection – […]