Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 2007 | Author: Tom Bedell Synopsis: This article talks about some of the first golf clubs in Vermont. It specifically talks about how they have been constructed and what they are doing today. In January of 1927, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first game. In May, Chalres […]
Stowe’s Pro
Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 2007 | Author: William Noble Synopsis: This article is about Joe Kirkwood who has been described as the world’s best trick-shot golfer. It talks about his work in the golf world and how he later became Stowe’s first golf pro. He was a big man with […]
Vermont Roots
Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 2007 | Author: Tom Bedell Synopsis: This article talks about Bobby Rotella and his work as a golf sports psychologist. It speaks to his philosophy and his view on his work. Come August, look for Bobby Rotella to team up with his dad, Guy, once more, in the […]
Bob Labbance: Word & Image
Source: Vermont Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 2008 | Author: David Cornwell Synopsis: This article talks about Bob Labbance and his influence on golf. It talks about him as a person as well as his work both playing and researching golf. Bob Labbance has been writing, researching, and photographing golf for more than […]
The History of the American Golf Course: Chapter 1, “The Origins of Golf”
Source: Vermont Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 2009 | Author: Ross Forbes Synopsis: This article discusses what different games have lead to the creation of the sport of golf we see today. It also speaks to the evolution of golf that occurred throughout our history. Ball and stick games have, in all likelihood, been […]
The History of the American Golf Course: Chapter 2, “America’s Early Attempts at Golf”
Source: Vermont Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 2009 | Author: Ross Forbes Synopsis: This article discusses the history behind golf in our country. It includes a discussion about the origin and how it developed into the sport it is today. Undoubtedly Scots that migrated to the New World during the 17th and 18th centuries occasionally […]
Mae Murray Jones | By Arthur Ristau (1997)
Fifty years fade like a twilight’s flicker and the old cadie’s breath quickens as he vividly recalls, stroke by stroke, put, by knee-knocking putt the climactic holes of the 1946 Eastern New York Women’s Amateur Championship. “I had just been discharged from the Navy.” Hank Vergie can’t forget, “and I was looking for something to […]
Williston Golf Club | By Wayne Mills (2009)
Rome wasn’t built in a day and nor was the Williston Golf Club. in 1927, Frank Talcott built the original nine holes. It was created for the enjoyment of his friends and family. It was a simple layout with sand, greens, coffee cans were used for the holes and a single set of hickory shafted […]
Pasteurized Beginnings [Early Courses in Vermont] | By Tom Mackin, Vermont Golf Magazine (2005)
The waning years of the late 19th century saw the creation of a handful of what would turn into Vermont’s still-standing, historic golf clubs. As Jack Mahoney wrote in “The Golf History of New England:” “Following Dorset came a flock of courses in Vermont, including Woodstock (1895), Mt. Anthony in Bennington (1897), Ewanok in Manchester […]
Nature and Nurture [History of Basin Harbor] | By William Noble, Vermont Golf Magazine (2003)
In the muted sunshine of a summer’s day, Bob Beach Jr, points with pride at the 700 acres that make up his family’s Basin Harbor Club, along Lake Champlain’s eastern shore. “We’re weeking property-wide Audubon certification,” he says, and if the club gets it, it will be one of the few in Vermont to do […]