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The time a club member beat Sam Snead in a money match by ... grabbing his balls. (via Sam Torrance's book "Out of Bounds")
May 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The time a club member beat Sam Snead in a money match by ... grabbing his balls. (via Sam Torrance's book "Out of Bounds")
1978 photo caption (typo and all) accompanying story about Jan Stephenson's latest LPGA victory:
April 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
1978 photo caption (typo and all) accompanying story about Jan Stephenson's latest LPGA victory:
Try 'em before you buy 'em: 1906 ad for the Foulis boys' new mashie-niblick. They'll also refurbish your balls, and who doesn't want that?
April 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Try 'em before you buy 'em: 1906 ad for the Foulis boys' new mashie-niblick. They'll also refurbish your balls, and who doesn't want that?
Judy Kimball, flailing her putter angrily after missing a putt, almost bashes Marilynn Smith in the head. (Associated Press photo, 1964)
April 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Judy Kimball, flailing her putter angrily after missing a putt, almost bashes Marilynn Smith in the head. (Associated Press photo, 1964)
![Image shows two tweets. Older tweet reads: Question for golf historians: ever hear a word that sounds like "shawndale" for a fade? 1991 newspaper article quoting Sam Snead: "So I hit me a shawndale up there [a shawndale was a fade] and hit it off the hill and onto the green about 12 feet away."
Update to that first tweet reads: Figured this one out: the word Sam was using was "chondelle," from sporting clays. The clay traveling in a rainbow trajectory is a chondelle. Sam sort of turned it on its side to represent a big curve around a tree.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:io26btn3umw7ztfut766m7ed/bafkreiczxzu7cvke2pq7lh4zk3d44jtt4iqzefyczn3n5iwxu4hwk3whli@jpeg)
"Wild Bill" Mehlhorn had historically bad yips. One HOFer watched him yip an 8-foot putt past the hole *on the fly* and off the green. He still won 19 PGA Tour tournaments with a fantastic tee-to-green game. More about him: www.golfcompendium.com/2021/02/wild...
March 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"Wild Bill" Mehlhorn had historically bad yips. One HOFer watched him yip an 8-foot putt past the hole *on the fly* and off the green. He still won 19 PGA Tour tournaments with a fantastic tee-to-green game. More about him: www.golfcompendium.com/2021/02/wild...
The Top 100 all-time PGA Tour money leaders ... through the end of the 1979 season:
March 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Top 100 all-time PGA Tour money leaders ... through the end of the 1979 season:
How things used to work in golf. Sam Snead, writing about watching a match in the 1937 Ryder Cup:
March 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
How things used to work in golf. Sam Snead, writing about watching a match in the 1937 Ryder Cup:
An example of the Arnold Palmer golf tips that were once syndicated to newspapers, this one from 1962:
March 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
An example of the Arnold Palmer golf tips that were once syndicated to newspapers, this one from 1962:
They used to name golf balls after famous generals from ancient Rome. (This one had a particularly good golf-ball name, at least.)
March 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
They used to name golf balls after famous generals from ancient Rome. (This one had a particularly good golf-ball name, at least.)
There is a LOT going on in this 1924 New York Times brief:
March 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
There is a LOT going on in this 1924 New York Times brief:
Who can still feel these in your hands and wrists?
March 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Who can still feel these in your hands and wrists?
A pamphlet published in the US in 1922 used the term pterodactyl for what we now call an albatross or double eagle.
March 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A pamphlet published in the US in 1922 used the term pterodactyl for what we now call an albatross or double eagle.
She's the only 2-time LPGA major winner who also won a national miniature golf championship. And you've almost certainly never heard of her: www.golfcompendium.com/2020/07/june...
March 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
She's the only 2-time LPGA major winner who also won a national miniature golf championship. And you've almost certainly never heard of her: www.golfcompendium.com/2020/07/june...
(4/4) Story is from a 1957 issue of USGA Journal:
March 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
(4/4) Story is from a 1957 issue of USGA Journal:
A putter that helps you line up correctly? What will they think of next? It will take 5 strokes off your game! (From 1916 American Golfer)
March 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A putter that helps you line up correctly? What will they think of next? It will take 5 strokes off your game! (From 1916 American Golfer)
This is a "What's In the Bag" from 1907:
March 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is a "What's In the Bag" from 1907:
"It isn't the hours you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes." — Tony Lema
March 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"It isn't the hours you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes." — Tony Lema
Sam Byrd was a 6-time PGA Tour winner. Before that he played pro baseball and made it to the New York Yankees. He was nicknamed "Babe Ruth's legs" because he was most commonly used as a pinch-runner or late defensive replacement for the Babe.
March 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Sam Byrd was a 6-time PGA Tour winner. Before that he played pro baseball and made it to the New York Yankees. He was nicknamed "Babe Ruth's legs" because he was most commonly used as a pinch-runner or late defensive replacement for the Babe.
1898 magazine ad for a golf ball endorsed by Harry Vardon and Fred Herd.
March 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
1898 magazine ad for a golf ball endorsed by Harry Vardon and Fred Herd.
Don't be too hard on yourself out there on the golf course. Even the all-time greats do really dumb things sometimes.
February 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Don't be too hard on yourself out there on the golf course. Even the all-time greats do really dumb things sometimes.
Sam Snead's The Education of a Golfer: " 'You're the most pathetic thing I've ever seen,' my old buddy, Porky Oliver, said with tears in his eyes."
February 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Sam Snead's The Education of a Golfer: " 'You're the most pathetic thing I've ever seen,' my old buddy, Porky Oliver, said with tears in his eyes."
Gene Littler, while serving in the Navy, won the 1953 U.S. Amateur, then the 1954 PGA Tour San Diego Open (as an amateur). A month later, he turned pro by sending this letter to the USGA:
February 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Gene Littler, while serving in the Navy, won the 1953 U.S. Amateur, then the 1954 PGA Tour San Diego Open (as an amateur). A month later, he turned pro by sending this letter to the USGA:
Fungchex? Sounds like the worst cereal ever made. (From a 1947 Golfdom magazine)
February 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Fungchex? Sounds like the worst cereal ever made. (From a 1947 Golfdom magazine)