For the past year or so I've been collecting golf memorabilia. My passion for golf combined with a love of Victorian and 20th Century Design makes this a natural hobby for me. Up till now, due to
Well, last week I discovered a golf object that was a total mystery to me. I had no idea what it was...at all. I flipped it over and examined it more closely...and still no idea. What about you. Do you know you know what it is? Maybe you do, but if not, I'm going to let you guess. Below is second photo of the mystery golf object that might provide addtional clues to its use...or not.
Once you think you know, have a look here. I'm pretty sure you'll be surprised.
Is it a device used to stuff a feathery?
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Feathery (1400), the first golf ball is a stuffed leather bag of feathers. The leather parts are bent, soaked, then faggots of feathers d' goose wet. After drying, the feathers take l' expansion whereas leather contracts resulting in an extremely hard mass, which is hammered in white roundness and is painted. Quoiqu' a good ball under dry conditions, the output of the ball of feathers decreases under soaked conditions. For qu' a pastime as old as the golf survives also a long time, a catch was to occur. This one can be the feathery golf ball very well. Improved by the Dutchmen approximately five or six hundred years after l' appearance d' a simple technique used for the plays of ball of l' old Rome, the feathery golf ball was an alive projectile having much spring compared to the wood balls used previously. The feathery golf ball reacts the " remarkably of course; links" , as Samuel Messieux shows it, with a starting blow recorded of 361 rods in 1836, on the Old Course of St-Andrews. Of course
ReplyDeleteHINT: You can see this object used in "The Greatest Game" movie.
ReplyDeletethat's so funny. it looks just like the top part of an antique icecream scoop I have. (i collect icecream memorabilia) - then when I read what it was, it made sense.
ReplyDeleteMy home course in springtime. Pictures:
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Hmmm... Curious, very curious ;-)
ReplyDeleteThat's a VERY nice Tee Cup - filled with sand next to the teeing ground, flipped upside down, and the ball placed on top.
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So every shot was like hitting out of a bunker ;)
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LOL - not exactly - the sand tee isn't that big - it just gets the ball off the ground a little bit. The ball isn't sitting down IN the sand like a bunker.
ReplyDeleteLOL - not exactly - the sand tee isn't that big - it just gets the ball off the ground a little bit. The ball isn't sitting down IN the sand like a bunker.
ReplyDeleteThat would be a pain to try and Tee-Up the ball :)
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