By Jim Davis Most of us know of Tom Morris and his son and golfing prodigy, Tommy. Tom is considered as golf’s Grand Old Man for so many reasons, not the least of which was his genuine love of the game, and for the Old Course at St. Andrews which he looked after as Keeper of the Green for 39 […]
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ghs welcomes new board member
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (April 29, 2021) – The Golf Heritage Society (GolfHeritage.org) announced the appointment of Glenn Haueisen to its Board of Directors. Haueisen will serve as the Director of Region 4, which includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. “It is with pleasure that we announce the addition of Glenn Haueisen to our Board of Directors,” said Dr. Bern Bernacki, president of the […]
craig wood – ’41 Masters champ featured on talkingolf podcast
Guest George Petro joined Warren Rogan and host Connor Lewis on the TalkinGolf podcast for a discussion of golf’s “Blonde Bomber,” Craig Wood. Petro and Lewis are GHS board members. The podcast, No. 65 of Lewis’ TalkinGolf series, was a collaboration with Rogan and his Sports’ Forgotten Heroes podcast series. It aired on March 21, 2021, just before the 2021 […]
u.s. open at columbia CC
golf art –celebrating the 1921 U.S. Open 1921 U.S. OPEN AT COLUMBIA COUNTRY CLUB, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND – by Robert Fletcher By Frank Cantrel Jr. James “Long Jim” Barnes won our national championship in 1921 at Columbia Country Club by nine strokes, the largest margin in the 20th century until Tiger Woods’ 15-stroke margin at Pebble Beach in 2000. Walter Hagen and host professional Fred […]
ghs member profiles
Bill Fields “GHS members appreciate the path to the present.”– Bill Fields April 2021By Sally J. Sportsman By virtue of his distinguished career as a golf writer, Bill Fields has met and written about many of the game’s greats, including Sam Snead, Gene Sarazen and Arnold Palmer. Fields’s small-town upbringing in North Carolina was a springboard to his opportunity to […]