May 11, 2020
In 1945, Byron Nelson was on a tear. The man with the smooth swing won 18 tournaments that year, 11 of them in a row. Some say the strength of the fields in the various events was not that strong as many top golfers were still on active military duty. That’s debatable, and is, ad infinitum. What’s not debatable is […]
May 9, 2020
We celebrate Mother’s Day tomorrow, May 10, and if there’s one thing certain in this world, without moms there would be no golf. Well, there would likely be no anything, but we are talking moms here and they all deserve our highest appreciation tomorrow and every day. We found a great story on the LPGA Women’s Network about professional golfing […]
May 5, 2020
Editor’s note: Though the following was written in January 2017, it seems appropriate to again share at this time as most of us are still shut up at home. MacDuff is an occasional contributor to GHS pages and we thought his take on the promises of bright new golfing technologies worthy of revisiting. Most of us receive or have read […]
May 1, 2020
This story appeared in the December 2015 issue of The Bulletin of the Golf Heritage Society. By Pete Trenhamwww.trenhamgolfhistory.org Ted Smith was born in Philadelphia 1906, the son of immigrant parents who had come to the United States from Hungary and Americanized their name to Smith. His family moved to Chicago and at the age of 12 he requested clubs […]
April 30, 2020
Golf’s “Wee Mon” was an enigma to many, but nowhere more so than on a golf course where he was often portrayed as cold and calculating. This September 1970 story by Nick Seitz for Golf Digest shows another side. The paragraph below is from the introduction to the article which appeared in GolfDigest.com on March 26, 2020. Click here to […]