Artifacts

Some artifacts include:

• Over 500 historic golf clubs
• The oldest identifiable golf club in the world, 1790, Simon Cossar.
• The oldest book in the world with reference to golf, 1566. We have 1000 volumes.
• The oldest golf ball in the world, 1790. We have 150 balls dating from 1790 to 1932.
• The largest collection of old, long-nosed wooden clubs in the world, 85.
• Two of the six oldest golf medals, 1826 and 1838.
• Harry Vardon's complete set of clubs plus his golf bag.
• The putter used by Horace Rawlins when he won his first U.S. Open in 1895.
• Three clubs used by Bobby Jones in his championship years, including grand slam, 1930.
• Clubs donated by Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and many others.
• One hundred lithographs and oils, plus many photographs throughout the building.
• An 1836 map of St. Andrews' old golf course.
• Two Kolven clubs plus a ball, about 500 years old, are displayed in the museum