Region 2’s hickory outing at Tumblebrook brings out the best

May 23, 2019Bob Gettis, GHS Director at Large, reports: They came from “far and sure” to take on the challenge of this Donald Ross design in Coopersburg, Pa. outside of Philadelphia. Frank Cantrel, Region 2 director, and his buddy, Michael Conley, came up from the DC area. Milton and Doris Zepp journeyed from Maryland. We helped Milton celebrate by singing […]

Ron Lyons’ golf car collection in the news

GHS member Ron Lyons’ golf car collection has been much celebrated. And why not? It is an extraordinary work and perhaps unique, the labor of many years of devotion, travel, and restoration. The latest to feature Lyons’ collection is reporter Adrienne Lamb, the CBC’s Edmonton-based reporter. (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.)Click here to see the story on the CBC website.

Back in Black: Tillie’s titan awaits PGA

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 […]

A little help for a Swedish project…

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 […]

Silent Auction donations wanted

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, […]