2018 November Golf Memorabilia Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/18/2018
'Rights & Wrongs of Golf', Prestwick & Carnoustie SC, 2009 Masters Sheet, etc - Charles Price Collection
This lot contains two lesson booklets, two score cards, and one brochure from the 2009 Masters Tournament.
The booklet titled "Rights and Wrongs of Golf" is written by Bobby Jones. This booklets cover has almost removed from binding, but that is the only noticeable imperfection that the book exhibits. The second booklet "Just Swing the Club Head" written by James McConnaughey in better condition. There are additional notes of interest in the book from previous owners.
The score cards have a vintage look to them. The Prestwick Golf Club was formally organized in 1851. Tom "Old Tom" Morris was the architect of the original 12-hole course. After that he took on the role of the club's "Keeper of the Green, Ball and Club Maker". The Prestwick scorecard has multi-view drawings of each hole along with the measurements of each hole. The book has some small folded page corners throughout the book.
The Carnoustie Golf Links has record of golf being played there as early as the 16th century. It remains one of the courses in the Open Championship rotation.
The 2009 Masters Tournament brochure is displays some subtle creasing horizontally in the middle. During this tournament, Ángel Cabrera won his second major title in a three way playoff. This was the first time in history that the Masters produced a champion from South America.
The Charles Price Collection
If golf had a Renaissance man, surely it was Charles Price. For nearly 50 years he touched the golf community with his flair for writing, a Hemingway of the fairways. Over that span his stylish writing was combined with an intimate players knowledge of the game based on his 1947-48 appearances as an amateur on the PGA Tour. This provided Price with a unique skill set to relate to players not found among his fellow golf scribes. He was highly respected by Bobby Jones as a writer and friend with the two visiting often for one-on-one conversations. He became a historian of the game through his time living with Walter Hagen, traveling with Gene Sarazen on "Shell's Wonderful World of Golf", competing with Ben Hogan & Sam Snead and writing about the careers of Jack Nicklaus & Arnold Palmer since they were college age players . Among his 17 books authored, co-authored or contributed to were "A Golf Story" (about The Masters, Augusta National and Jones); along with "The World of Golf: A Panorama of Six Centuries of the Game's History", and "Golfer-at-Large" all considered classics in golf literature.
The founding editor of GOLF Magazine in 1958, Price formulated the model for the game's contemporary magazines, and through columns for "Golf" and later "Golf Digest" where he spent his last dozen years his thoughtful analysis and retrospection presented the game.
He was the first golf director at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island and is largely responsible for establishing the Heritage Classic in 1969, one of the most prestigious events on the PGA Tour. These accomplishments led to countless far ranging awards in the golfing community which included 1988 recognition as one of the 100 Heroes of the First Century of Golf, the 1987 Donald Ross Award from Golf Course Architects and in 1985 he was elected by the Golf Writers Association of America to receive its tenth Memorial Gold Journalism Award, sponsored by Jack Nicklaus. His first place writing competition awards from the G.W.A.A. are too voluminous to list in this short space.
We at The Golf Auction would like to thank Charles Price's widow Laurie Rider for entrusting us with Charley's life-long golf acquisitions, and are appreciative of her desire to allow the collecting public to share in his love of the game.
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