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 […]

By MacDuffIt is a fleeting season, as most of them are in truth, but the joy that spring brings is as intense to northern golfers as the first snows are ominous. The long, dark days are done, or should be, and the advent of May will find the first tentative steps at a golfing season. The northern golfer checks social […]

In the spring, we all enjoy watching the TV golf extravaganza that is the US Masters, particularly the back-nine holes and the same pin placements that we all know so well.  When Mickelson hit his six iron off the pine needles with no back-spin and stopped the ball by its pitch-mark near the pin just over Rae’s Creek, the American […]

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (April 4, 2019) – PGA/LPGA Professional Renee Powell, the PGA Head Professional at Clearview Golf Club in East Canton, Ohio, has been elected the first at-large director of the PGA of America Board of Directors. Powell, 72, wrote the featured Lag Putt column in the Spring 2019 edition of The Golf for the Golf Heritage Society. […]

Dank Jenkins, one of the greatest of the modern sportswriters, passed away on March 7, 2019. The author of 20 books and innumerable golf articles, Mr. Jenkins possessed an irreverent style. “He was the most effortless, most confident writer most of us have ever known. Or ever will,” according to a post on Jenkin’s death by the Golf Writers Association […]