The Golf Library
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I collect & share golf books, magazines, films, records… mainly 1920s-1990s. I enjoy studying the swings & personalities of golf’s past. Insta:thegolflibrarian
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Roger Maltbie won the first Memorial Tournament in arguably the craziest pants in tour history.
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One of the exciting but risky things about collecting old film reels is that it is a race against time. The films break down so you never know what you are going to get condition/quality wise. They develop a vinegar smell, the picture takes on a pink hue and looks scratched. Sometimes they are a Golden Bear shank on the 12th at Augusta. Though there is no prospect of a putt to save par.
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Something special for Masters Sunday. The founder Robert Tyre Jones Jr. and his masterpiece. The risk I mentioned below is worth it when uncovering lost films that haven’t otherwise made it through to the modern era. Whether that be the free streaming platforms or those behind a paywall. Nor the VHS era for that matter, they are recovered from the original old reels. I have lost films of all the legends and iconic courses etc. from 1920s onwards. Some of those are the icon that is Bobby Jones. He filmed a lot more than the Warner Bros series. This one below is from the 1930s, filmed at Augusta National and also features power hitters Jimmy Thomson and “Cannonball” Lawson Little. Little won 32 consecutive matches on the way to British Amateur and US Amateur championship victories in both 1934 and 1935 (“The Little Slam”). Jim Nantz has said Little holds the same special place in his heart as others have players like Ben Hogan, largely because they have the same connection to the Monterey Peninsula area. Jim isn’t on social media but perhaps someone could share this with him. It is nice to hear Jim and the CBS team this week which we don’t have week to week in Australia anymore after the PGA Tour made the bizarre decision to give us a hotchpotch commentary team and coverage for the regular tour events. Note in this film the beautiful Alister Mackenzie bunkering on 2 and 8 that has sadly not been fully preserved by their custodian Augusta National. In the early days they looked like they could be from the Melbourne sandbelt along with other Mackenzie masterpieces. Now they look quite unremarkable relative to what they were. Mackenzie once said he wanted bunkering to look like shark’s teeth from a distance. Now they are rounded off and lacking that distinctive character.
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The ladies majors have arrived this week with The Chevron Championship being played at Memorial Park in Houston, Texas. Here is some beautiful footage of arguably the greatest lady golfer of all time, Mickey Wright. Analysis by mini Hale Irwin. Mickey won 13 majors and 82 LPGA events in a relatively short career given she effectively retired at just 34. The same age as Byron Nelson when he retired. Both Byron and Ben Hogan said Mickey Wright had the best swing they had ever seen both men and women. When Ben Hogan said this to writer/journalist/historian Rhonda Glenn he slammed his hands on the desk in front of him to drive home his feeling on the matter. As Nick Seitz once said, no key on the typewriter can adequately convey when Ben Hogan wanted to really make a point.
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The 6th at Oakmont in 1948 & 2025. Greens running beautifully in 1948. Long time Oakmont pro & 1947 US Open champion Lew Worsham. He famously holed a wedge shot for a 1 shot victory in the first ever nationally televised tournament 1953 George May’s World Championship of Golf.
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Jamie Kennedy Ben Hogan’s third shot on the 71st hole of the 1960 US Open at Cherry Hills.
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Rest In Peace Kultida Woods. Putting together this photo montage from many Tiger books was an easy task, every photo full of joy and positive energy, which is how she will be remembered. Kultida played the role of an understated matriarch like figure in golf to perfection.
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