Life Magazine's Golf Image Archive

Google has digitized Life Magazine's images and put it on their images site. Geoff Shackelford explored many of the golf images and there are some stunning pictures that capture golf history. Worth a bookmark.

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VERY cool

I’ll be spending some time flipping through all of those pictures.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Nov 21, 2008 11:05 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Me too

Some of the one’s that Geoff posted of Arnie and Hogan were just awesome.

by Ryan Ballengee on Nov 21, 2008 11:14 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

found a mistake

found one that is captioned “Former Masters Champion Bobby Jones…” oops

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=23ab3925bfbbead7&q=golf+source:life+2B+22bobby+jones22&usg=__5Ul23PcU5XfBNCjigZzZ8FcM49k=&prev=/images3Fq3Dgolf2Bsource:life2B252B2B2522bobby2Bjones252226hl3Den26sa3DG

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Nov 21, 2008 11:50 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

so you're saying

That isn’t Bobby Jones congratulating Gary Player?

Truth has a well-known liberal bias.

by dianemarie on Nov 21, 2008 12:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

sigh

bobby jones never won the masters

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Nov 21, 2008 12:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

OK

I didn’t know that. I assumed he did because he won just about everything else at one time or another.

Truth has a well-known liberal bias.

by dianemarie on Nov 21, 2008 12:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

nope

he bought the land and built the course – but only played in the tournament a handful of times. he retired from competitive golf in 1930 and started his law practice. by 1934 when the first invitational was played, he was just a recreational player.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Nov 21, 2008 1:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs