The GHS partners with golf’s Historic Clubs to share their history and artifacts from an insider’s viewpoint
Included below are…
GHS Historic Golf clubs
Pittsburg Field Club
One of the Golf Heritage Society’s first “Heritage Clubs” is the oldest “sporting” club in Western Pennsylvania and one of the oldest in the United States. The Pittsburgh Field Club started as the Pittsburgh Cricket Club as early as 1871 by some accounts. It officially incorporated on April 1, 1882, where the English game continued to reign supreme until golf came to the region in the mid-1890s.
Since its inception in 1898, the Youngstown Country Club in Ohio has been a pillar of the community and a gathering ground for the region’s titans of industry. The club itself was started as the Mahoning Golf Club by a group of 80 men and women who each subscribed for five dollars…
Collectors of balls for this period have many choices should they wish to focus on a particular niche, as these include balls with logos of from anything to universities to sports clubs and everything in between; corporate brands (logos); images of any number of things from animals to birds; joke balls, balls with the names of professional golfers, sometimes in script; autographed balls, itself a category as collectors often like to build a display of balls that the golfer him or herself has signed.