Australian Golf Heritage Society Museum in Strathfield, New South Wales | Museum

Australian Golf Heritage Society Museum

Locality: Strathfield, New South Wales

Address: 52 Weeroona Rd 2135 Strathfield, New South Wales

Website: http://www.australiangolfheritage.org.au

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23.01.2022 The 1936 tour of Australia by Gene Sarazen and Helen Hicks was ground breaking in many ways. Tony Hill has researched the tour, and penned an interesting and absorbing article which can be found at: http://www.australiangolfheritage.org.au/articles.html

19.01.2022 Today, the Museum was lucky enough to welcome a record number of visitors when around 100 Jack Newton Junior Golf competitors in the Harvey Norman Sydney Week of Golf visited before or after their rounds. All I can say is that the future of the game is in the very best of hands. Their interest in the objects on display was extremely encouraging, and most of the questions asked thoughtful and insightful . . . and some very testing for the AGHS members on site. Big thanks to Jack Newton Junior Golf for the opportunity to host their players. Same time next year?

17.01.2022 Courtesy of one of our moderately talented volunteers, we now have a newly minted museum display case ready for a couple of coats of paint . . . and placement according to the Museum floor plan. We've got a mob of objects that would fit under its glass. Selection of same is when it gets difficult.

17.01.2022 After putting a couple of coats of Dulux on our new display cases, master painter Bruno takes a well-deserved lunch break, and watches the last day of the 1987 Masters in our Audio-Visual Lounge (under construction). Thanks Bruno!

14.01.2022 Museum Update - 31 December 2020 Our last report for this most trying of years has a lot of positivity about it! Our 'Wall of Clubs' is all but complete. Labelling has been done, and some small complementary displays added to fill the shelf space at the bottom of our gondola units. A couple of minor enhancements have been made to our existing displays, and we are all set to start work on the last three holes of the back nine.... A vote of thanks has been well and truly earned by the Museum 'workforce' - Bruno Pace and Tony Hill. Without their help, we would still be a largely empty room. It is also absolutely appropriate to acknowledge the past input and present invisible influence of our previous Collection Manager Vicki Stanton. It is not unusual for the question "What would Vicki do here?" to be asked. And on that cheery note, best wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2021 . . . and we hope to see you at the Museum.

13.01.2022 It is sad to acknowledge the recent death of Peter Alliss, the very English broadcaster whose insightful, humorous and beautifully intoned commentary in the years following his retirement from professional golf was a joy to listen to. There is perhaps no better way to remember the style and substance of his work than to enjoy the acceptance speech he delivered upon his election to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2012. Vale Mr Alliss.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JifGn_yJ4YQ See more

11.01.2022 For a slight change of pace, how about some Tuesday Trivia! When was the last time Australia won the Bledisloe Cup?

03.01.2022 As we worked about the Museum today, painting, installing new display items, photographing items for cataloguing, and generally whipping things into shape, there was one subject of discussion that no one could satisfactorily resolve . . . How did the great Ossie Pickworth get the name Ossie? Pickworth fans, friends and family - we know you're out there! Can anyone help?... (Golf - The Pickworth Way - Private Collection)

03.01.2022 One for the New South Welshmen. Underneath all that silver gunk looks to be the stamp of Victor Trumper and Dodge Sydney. Looks like it might have been a short-...lived venture. Some very quick research shows the company was registered in November 1910 and were located at 317 George St. Trumper, notoriously poor with his finances, was out of the business by November 1912 and it was wound up in November 1916, though it possibly ceased operating prior to that, perhaps as early as 1912. Trumper died at the age of only 37 in 1915. This is the first time I've seen the crossover of cricket and golf on a golf club. See more

02.01.2022 Museum Update - 3rd December 2020 Senior Museum Intern Bruno and Slightly Less Senior Museum Intern Tony were on the job again today, and briefed with the task of coming up with a display to fill one of our custom-made display cases. Slightly Less Senior Museum Intern Tony made the observation that we had clubs on display, we had balls on display, we had hats on display, we had socks on display, and we had various other items of clothing in view. He then mentioned that we do... not play golf barefooted. After some discussion re the subtleties of Tony's statement, we decided to create a display of shoes. Photos of it in draft form are attached. P.S. - the Sydney Bulldogs rugby league team were having a corporate day at Strathfield today, and we were visited early by Bulldogs legend Terry Lamb. A more media savvy Museum attendant would have taken a photo . . .