By John Fischer IIIThe 2019 PGA Championship was played at Bethpage Black, one of five courses at Bethpage State Park on Long Island. The course was designed by A.W. Tillinghast, one of the great golf course architects of the 1920s-30s, who also designed Winged Foot (East and West) and Baltusrol (Upper and Lower). Tillinghast was a genius at course design […]

Pehr Thermaneius of Sweden writes to ask help from GHS members who might be able to provide information on Sandvik golf shafts. Here’s Pehr’s letter: I write to ask for assistance with a story about Swedish steel shafts. These shafts were manufactured by a steel company in the Swedish town of Sandviken. The company’s name is now Sandvik and its former […]

Dick McDonough wants your golf memorabilia. The GHS Region 2 Director is soliciting items for the Golf Heritage Society’s Silent Auction, annually held during the Society’s general meeting and trade show. Monies raised are placed into a designated fund to benefit various Society programs and initiatives, among them the Junior Scholarship Fund, marketing, and website upgrades and maintenance. In 2018, […]

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – WE ARE GOLF – a coalition of the game’s leading associations and industry partners – will join forces Wednesday, May 1 to host the 12th annual National Golf Day on Capitol Hill. More than 300 industry leaders will meet with Congressional members to discuss golf’s economic, charitable, environmental, fitness and societal benefits.  “National Golf Day provides an […]