Golf books are one of the foundations of the Golf Collectors Society, now the Golf Heritage Society. Co-founder Joe Murdoch is a legend in this field, his 1968 bibliography, The Library of Golf, to this day serving as a seminal work for all collectors. Though no longer in print, copies do surface from time to time. Murdoch later partnered with […]
Category Archives: Golf Collecting
golf stamp collecting
The following article on golf philately by Patricia Loehr was published in the Winter 2020 edition of The Golf, the quarterly journal of the Golf Heritage Society. Coins and stamps are often the gateway categories into collecting for young people who branch out from there as their interests begin to crystalize around preferred themes and topics. Baseball cards, for example, […]
top five collectibles? what do you think?
Links Magazine contributor Erik Matuszewski recently posted an article headlined by a logo golf ball collector in Poland. If he had checked with the GHS, he might have found some collectors right here in the States that would easily rival his Polish collector. Not that they are competing, mind you. Still, it’s fun to see golf collecting get the attention […]
collecting golf medals and trophies
By George PetroIntrigued by golf’s rich history? Then you won’t regret getting hooked on collecting its medals and trophies. Many are objects of compelling design, beauty and value. Most are also tangible representations of events and human struggles with which a collector, item in hand, can deeply identify and explore. So, charge in as a beginning explorer and emerge an […]
pga’s no-dimple experiment harkens to golf ball’s distant past
In late June the white-coats in Titleist’s R&D labs thought to produce, for whatever reason, a dimple-less golf ball and ask tour pros to hit the thing. What would it do? How would the pros react? Most GHS guys, and the hickory golf guys, too, know exactly what would happen. And, as the video below shows, it did. The professional […]