2021 March Auction Featuring The Payne Stewart Collection
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/15/2021
Tours in the Cumberlands' Booklet with Bobby Jones Golfing at Middlesboro CC & Barbourville Horse Show
This vintage Cumberlands driving tour guide has 16 pages of sights in the area that became popular as roads and cars were improved. Included is a photo of Bobby Jones at Barbourville and of the golf course at Middlesboro Kentucky. Middlesboro is about 30 miles from Barbourville and it’s golf course is the second oldest in the nation and the oldest continuously played course in the nation with golf starting in 1889. The guide, by design, his a large crease down the middle of each page, but there are no stains, tears and only minor rust on the center page from the staples. Jones acquired his hickory shafts from the Minton Hickory Farm in Barbourville, Kentucky. T. W. Minton owned the Minton Hickory Farm, which made canes, wheel spokes, buggy whips, but they were world renowned for their Hickory golf shafts which were shipped worldwide and used by many period club makers. When travelling through, Bobby always made sure he would stop in Barbourville to see his friends at the Minton Hickory farm. He even gave an exhibition from time to time that is documented in two original photos in this current auction. One of his local friends was Bill Dishman who owned a local vacation resort, Dishman Springs. The booklet is in good condition with previously mentioned creases. This is a unique piece of Bobby Jones' memorabilia not normally seen.
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