From the Random Golf Footnotes series by John Fischer III. This is Masters week, a time when golfers of all sorts watch the tournament on television or a streaming service or, perhaps, record it to watch later. Since its inception The Masters has been played over the course of the Augusta National Golf Club, and avid viewers, or “patrons” lucky […]

By Bob Sheppard The Augusta National has hosted the Masters for quite a few years now, and along with the repeated success of that daunting task the club has also graciously protected and preserved the tournament’s traditions. With the Masters being played at the same location every year, the golf course, in order to test the best, needs to be […]

By Richard Hurley, PhDTurfgrass Specialist Center for Turfgrass ScienceRutgers University, Retired (Richard Hurley is a GHS member who was also the turfgrass specialist for the new Bayonne Golf Club in Bayonne, N.J. His book Bayonne Golf Club, which chronicles the building of this course, was reviewwed in The Golf, No. 1, Autumn 2018.) As the 2019 Masters Tournament week draws near, […]

Philadelphia golf historian and GHS member Pete Trenham has updated his wonderful website and is sharing stories from trenhamgolfhistory.org The archive of stories is appropriately titled “Trenham’s Treasure Trove.” Almost all of them deal with golf history that happened in and around the Philadelphia area, but all of them shed light on the doings of great golfers from the past. […]

John Fischer III’s “Random Golf Footnotes” In the early 20th century, it was not uncommon to send golf-themed holiday postcards. I have attached two early Easter postcards of rabbits, bunnies and chicks with the necessary implements of the game. The top card was printed in Germany and was unposted. Germany had the best lithography equipment and many fine cards were […]