By Michael B. Morrison320 pages including over 200 illustrations, charts and mapsSelf-published, hardback and colour.Price: £29.50 U.K. post and packingTo order, and for U.S price and postage, email:Mike.Morrison57@outlook.com Reviewed by Pete Georgiady (Autumn 2022, The Golf) In the past few years a very palatable assortment of golf history books have been published. Michael Morrison’s in 2022 certainly fits that bill. […]
Author Archive: Jim Davis
then and now
By Dave Barton, PGA Suffice it to say, individuals with disabilities are not a new thing but, let there be no doubt, the way “we humans” perceive and embrace individuals with disabilities has come a long way in many areas. However, the journey for equality is most decidedly not over for those in our society who look or act “differently” compared […]
tiger collectible a rare ace
Under the heading of rare golf collectibles comes an item with a Tiger Woods pedigree, a ball he used to score an ace during the 1996 Greater Milwaukee Open. Click here for a Golf Digest story about the ball and why it’s coming up for auction now.
tee mold with wings
Tee molds are not new, but at least one inventor thought he, or she, would add a couple of wings for helpful fingers to provide some upward pressure whilst the thumb provided the downward force to place the sand. Apparently, this is not a common mold, at least in the experience of Canadian collector David Burgess who wrote (from a […]
collecting postcards
A guide to collecting vintage golf postcards. By David Low Introduction The golf ‘boom’ around the turn of the 20th century conveniently coincided with the golden age of picture postcards, which now provides the present-day golf historian with a fascinating insight into the game, and its personalities, of that era. Millions of postcards were sent each year and the up-and-coming pastime […]