June 26, 2020As the coronavirus prevented its customary June gathering in Ohio, the National Hickory Championship came up with its own solution. Host Pete Georgiady allowed contestants to “play in place,” as it were, using their own local courses, with McIntyre gutty balls, and to a length that as much as possible matched that of the original Oakhurst Links, the […]
Author Archive: Jim Davis
Golfing mecca of a silent screen comic
Random Golf Notes – By John W. Fischer III (2017) A while back I saw Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy on Turner Classic Movies, a movie composed of excerpts from Harold Lloyd’s silent movies. I enjoyed the movie – it was very funny, physical humor but not slapstick -– and in doing a little research on Lloyd afterwards discovered he was one […]
A first for the NCAA
Celebrating Black Golfers – LaRee Pearl Sugg LaRee Pearl Sugg, now an associate athletic director for the University of Richmond, created quite a stir for her UCLA Bruin golf team in 1991. Down by six shots on the 17th hole of their NCAA Championship match with San Jose State Univ. at Ohio State University’s Scarlet Course, Sugg rallied her teammates, […]
Chasing a legend
Victory on top of victory. They just kept coming. Sam Snead, he of the “oily” swing and prodigious physical talents, was a fearsome competitor and one of golf’s American Triumverate, along with Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson (all born in 1912). Bill Fields, one of the great sports journalists, who just happens to have a GHS membership on his CV, […]
college or murad silks
By George PetroJune 2020 Known as a “College Silk” or “Murad Silk”, this particular example features Syracuse University Golf with its official color, orange and its college seal. It was produced in 1910. Not directly associated with the silk is a Syracuse University golf trophy awarded in 1909. Trade cards (non-tobacco) were known to exist in France in the 1840s […]