The golf buttons of Yvo Melis

    There are no less than four boards with more than a hundred shiny wave buttons that Yvo Melis has lent to the Nederlands Golf Museum. The result of years of searching. As far as he has been able to trace the origin, they are provided with a handwritten caption....

Iain Forrester lends golf sticks to golf museum

Iain Forrester is a golf pro at Golf & Countryclub Hoenshuis in Voerendaal. But he is also a specialist in the field of historical golf materials. The Dutch Golf Museum received several antique golf clubs from its collection on loan, including two special ones...

Donation of 300 golf books strengthens library

The Dutch Golf Museum received no less than 300 golf books from Paul Roos, from his webshop Golfboeken.nl Paul thought the golf museum deserved its own library. These are books that have been published in the past 30 years, but that also show a piece of history....

Society of Sports Friends DE 144 donates Masters flag

       The Dutch Golf Museum experienced a memorable moment.Ferd Vrijmoed of the museum board, together with Dirk Jan Vink of golf course Bleijenbeek, received from Frans Fiolet the flag of the Masters 2015 with the signature of Joost Luiten, our best golfer...

Donation Club de Crosse by Geert and Sara Nijs

Geert and Sara Nijs have delighted the Nederlands Golfmuseum with a special donation: a Club de Crosse with five choulettes and a sac au crocket (circa 1900). Or a stick with balls from the jeu de crosse, also called chole.  ...

KLM Open memorabilia

Daan Slooter, director of KLM Open and member of DE 144, has donated part of his KLM Open collection to the Netherlands Golf Museum.  In 1978, Daan, eleven years old, kept the scoreboard during the Dutch Open. The following year he ran as a caddie. He has kept all the...