Hail, King Harry!
What a year it has been for Harry Hall. Over four million dollars in season winnings on the US Tour, seventeenth place in the FedEx Cup standings, sixth in Stroke Average, number one in Putting Average, seventeen straight cuts made on Tour (with only four players ahead of him on the cut-streak list). No wonder…
A Sweet Inheritance
Barnes and Hogan: Master and Student —Part II Ben Hogan’s personal golf library, consigned directly by the Hogan family, sold for $5,198 at auction this past weekend. The collection comprised 18 golf books — most of them autographed by the author and inscribed to Hogan himself — spanning the ages from Horace Hutchinson’s Hints for Golf (1886)…
Barnes and Hogan: Master and Student
It is no surprise that Ben Hogan’s personal library, up for auction this week through Golden Age Auctions, includes Jim Barnes’s Picture Analysis of Golf Strokes. Published in 1919, Barnes’s book was groundbreaking — using high-speed photography to capture the swing of one of golf’s great teachers. More than just a champion, Barnes declared himself a…
Harry Hall’s Smart Play: Lessons from Golf History
The Tour Championship this week offers the chance to look back a hundred years, to September 1919, when Jim Barnes won the inaugural Southern Open at East Lake. Officially it was one of Barnes’ 22 PGA Tour victories, though this golf historian would happily argue for another dozen or so that the modern record books…
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* The Cornish Shield carries ten gold bezants (not fifteen), recalling the arms of Condor, the Cornish Earl before the Norman Conquest.
** The Cornish Golfer caricature portrays Jim Barnes, based on a 1918 drawing by HB (“Dickie”) Martin, noted cartoonist and author of Fifty Years of American Golf (1936).
Cornish Golfer 