This story has interested GHS members Bob Gettis and John Capers III to pursue a possible Zoom presentation to the membership. The 105-year-old Cobbs Creek GC was designed by Hugh I. Wilson, when the Philadelphia city father’s believed there was a need for a public championship course equal to the two Merion Golf Club courses he had previously designed. He also designed […]
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a peek at ultra-private golf courses
GHS member John Fischer III often pens a golf history article for SI’s The Morning Read. His latest concerns three private courses built by early movie star Harold Lloyd, business tycoon Walter Annenberg, and successful banker T. Suffern Tailer Sr. What do you do when you have the dough and love to golf? You build your own track, that’s what. […]
virginia golfer magazine profiles dick johns, harold guy, ghs
The November/December 2021 issues of Virginia Golfer Magazine, contains a lovely story by Lisa D. Mickey on GHS members Dick Johns and Harold Guy and their contributions to the Golf Heritage Society. Click on the link above to see the magazine. The story appears on page 26.
golf heritage society to exhibit at gcsaa conference and trade show
Pittsburgh, Pa. (Dec. 10, 2021) – The Golf Heritage Society (GolfHeritage.org) will have a presence at the GCSAA Conference and Trade Show, to take place Feb. 5-10, 2022, in San Diego. The GHS will be located in booth #2059, where attendees can interact with leaders of the Society to discover all the GHS has to offer. “We look forward to […]
the lady in black
It is a delicious story, one that infuses otherwise staid golf history with a little spice and mystery. It is the story of Gloria Minoprio, a British woman golfer of the early 1930s, who stunned the conservative British golf world by showing up at the 1933 English Ladies Championship wearing, gasp, trousers! This was simply not done. But that was […]