Museums

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Site Name	Symbol	Description
USGA Golf Museum		The USGA's library and museum is the world's largest collection of periodicals, books, and historical documents about golf. The library has an on going project of digitizing rare publications that are in public domain. Click here to search the site. The Seagle Electronic Golf Library was named after Janet Seagle the museum's first curator. Click here for more information.
Women Golfers' Museum		"At the Annual dinner of the Veteran Ladies' Golfing Association held in April 1938, a speaker urged the establishment of a Museum for the purpose of collecting and exhibiting objects relating to the origin and growth of women's golf. The scheme is now in the process of being organised." This notice was circulated by the LGU to all clubs in 1938, and "the scheme" certainly took off… for when the Museum officially opened in the Lady Golfers Club, 3 Whitehall Court, in April 1939, it was judged a great success. The first committee had as its President, Issette Pearson, and the first Chairman was Mabel Stringer, who was affectionately known as "Auntie Mabel" to her golfing friends. Ladies' Golf owes a lot to Aunty Mabel, she was the first female golf journalist, assistant secretary of the LGU; she founded the Girls’ Golfing Society and the Veteran Ladies' Golf Association. She was a born organiser, and knew everyone involved in Ladies Golf. Her enthusiasm would certainly have driven "the scheme" forward, and there would have been no doubt about its success with Aunty Mabel at the helm..
British Golf Museum		The incomparable collection of clubs, balls, pictures and trophies gathered by the R&A over more than two centuries was for many years shielded from public view in display cabinets within the clubhouse or stored in the basement cellars.
South African Golf Hall of Fame		The inauguration of the Southern Africa Golf Hall of Fame will take place 28 March 2009.
British Golf Collectors Society		The British Golf Collectors Society was founded in 1987 with the aim of promoting interest in the history and traditions of golf, and collecting items associated with that history. Current membership is around 500 based in all regions of Great Britain and abroad, particularly Continental Europe and the United States.
Golf Comic Books		This site deals with comic books that have some type of reference to golf on the FRONT cover.
Golf Ball Collector		Kevin McGimpsey's site devoted to helping collectors and anyone interested in learning more about old golf balls.
National Museums of Scotland		NMS is Scotland's national museum service. We care for many of Scotland's museum collections of national and international importance, and present these to the public at our museums. We also provide advice and expertise to the museums community across Scotland. "Since then the Women Golfers' Museum has remained in Scotland but the collection has been split with the clubs, balls, trophies, medals and costumes housed at the British Golf Museum (BGM) at St Andrews whilst the books, handbooks and magazines , albums and scrapbooks, photographs and other memorabilia are in the Royal Museum, National Museums of Scotland (NMS) in Chambers Street, Edinburgh."
Walker Cup History		"Welcome to a unique website dedicated to the history of the Walker Cup and the amateur game. We include an extensive database of material regarding the history of golf’s finest contest, maintain an archive of historical information about international amateur golf and report regularly, and in depth, on developments in the amateur game around the world. The site, which is based on the book, The Walker Cup, Golf’s Finest Contest, 1922-2003 by Gordon G. Simmonds (ggs@walkercuphistory.com) provides the only complete statistical database of information on the Web about the Walker Cup matches, the players, the venues, the captains and individual records."
Keepers of the Game		The Keepers' Mission We will preserve golf's fine traditions and etiquette (self-reliance, honesty, manners, honor, thoughtfulness). The essence of golf must not be lost in a world where change outpaces perspective and winning is more important than honor. Keepers will improve and expand golf's traditions and seek ways they can be spread throughout wider life.
Golf Ball Guide
Hobbs Golf Collection		Michael Hobbs is the author of 35 golf books and is a fully accredited tournament, championship and golf course photographer. He has been professionally active in the game for some 30 years and is a well recognised authority internationally. This commercial photo library has a selection of approximately 60,000 images from the beginnings of the game quite early in the last Millennium to the present time.
BAPLA		British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies - Golf Archives (Click here)
Golfika		The Golfika web-site started ten years ago, in 1997 as the personal web-site of J-B Kazmierczak. It became soon the link between all golf collectors and historians, initially in France but then all around the world, focusing on the European Continent.
Golf Collectors Society		The Golf Collectors Society is an international organization dedicated to preserving the treasures and traditions of the game of golf. Founded in 1970 by Robert Kuntz and Joseph S.F. Murdoch, the organization today has over 2300 members from 18 different countries. The philosophy of the Society was and has always remained "a not for profit fraternal organization that encourages members to visit, share information, and to establish friendships based on a common interest, the love of golf."
Niblick Golf		The mission of NiblickGolf.com is to provide information on the rich traditions and heritage of the game of golf. We want to look at the foundations of the game by examining both the early courses and the golf pioneers who built them.
Golf Ball Museum		First site devoted entirely to the Golf Ball.
Nicklaus Museum		The Nicklaus Museum officially opened its doors on May 21, 2002 and exhibits the memorabilia of Jack's success and leads visitors on a journey through his life and career. A visit here will truly bring to life those dramatic decades when Jack Nicklaus added so much to the history of golf.
The Golfing Gadds		The Life and Times of Bert Gadd – Professional Golfer
Canadian Golf Hall of Fame Museum		the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame preserves and honours the traditions of golf from its early European origins to the present day's modern equipment and superstar players.
World Golf Hall of Fame		World Golf Hall of Fame.
Deutches Golf Archive		German golf archive
Golf Museum		http://www.golfmuseum.de/en/