Paul Roos donates golf books again

Paul Roos donates golf books again

On Tuesday 23 January, chairman John and volunteer Anja drove to Delft in a borrowed van to visit Paul Roos. Paul has been a supporter ... lees meer

Opening exhibition “Golf in the former Dutch East Indies”

Opening exhibition “Golf in the former Dutch East Indies”

On January 12, 2024, an exhibition on the theme of golf in the former Dutch East Indies opened in the Dutch Golf Museum. Tom and ... lees meer

Editors Het Panflet interviews golf museum

Editors Het Panflet interviews golf museum

It's always nice when the editors of a golf club want to come to the golf museum to conduct an interview. En extra leuk als dit de ... lees meer

Director ASR Real Estate visits golf museum

Director ASR Real Estate visits golf museum

Today we received a high visit in the golf museum. Dick van den Oever, the managing director of ASR Real Estate, visited the Dutch Golf lees meer

KLM Open cup back in golf museum

KLM Open cup back in golf museum

It has been a while since Spaniard Pablo Larazabal won the KLM Open 2023 at Bernardus Golf on Sunday 28 May. Pablo celebrated winning ... lees meer

Succesvolle eerste Nederlands Golfmuseum Cup

Succesvolle eerste Nederlands Golfmuseum Cup

      Zaterdag 15 juli 2023 werd voor de eerste keer de Nederlands Golfmuseum Cup georganiseerd. Met aansluitend op zondag de ... lees meer

Willem van den Elskamp donates Dutch Open memorabilia

Willem van den Elskamp donates Dutch Open memorabilia

Prior to the Golfmuseum Cup, journalist Willem van den Elskamp came to chairman John Ott to hand him a number of Dutch Open items that ... lees meer

KLM Open cup is ready

KLM Open cup is ready

It will be that time again soon. The Dutch Open cup, since this year KLM Open cup again, will leave the Dutch Golf Museum for a while. ... lees meer

Inschrijving open voor Nederlands Golfmuseum Golfcup 2023 !!

Inschrijving open voor Nederlands Golfmuseum Golfcup 2023 !!

Heel veel golfers zijn bekend met de vele voorronden van de Aphrodite Be Live op de diverse golfbanen door heel Nederland. Er zijn ... lees meer

Family of Jos and Wim Van Dijk visits golf museum

Family of Jos and Wim Van Dijk visits golf museum

On 17 April 2023, Jos and Wim van Dijk's daughter-in-law and granddaughters (Lies, Eline and Mariette) visited the golf museum. Jos van lees meer

R.I.P. Jan Dorrestein

R.I.P. Jan Dorrestein

Thursday, April 6, 2023, we received the news that golf legend Jan Dorrestein has passed away at the age of 77. Jan Dorrestein was the ... lees meer

Son of deceased father donates golf books

Son of deceased father donates golf books

Rombout Jas, son of Henk Jas, who recently died at the age of 87, brought more than 150 golf books and golf games to the museum. His ... lees meer

Life-size leather caddie on loan

Life-size leather caddie on loan

The golf museum was surprised on Wednesday 14 December with a unique golf object: a life-size caddie with golf bag which is completely ... lees meer

NGF director Jeroen Stevens visits golfmuseum

NGF director Jeroen Stevens visits golfmuseum

Jeroen Stevens, director of the Dutch Golf Federation (NGF), visited the Dutch Golf Museum last Saturday. It had been about 5 years ... lees meer

Physically limited golfer Daphne van Houten donates signed golf ball

Physically limited golfer Daphne van Houten donates signed golf ball

Daphne van Houten is an avid golfer of 24 years who first plays handicap +1.9 (= under 0) and after the introduction of the World ... lees meer

Museum visit Museon-Omniversum

Museum visit Museon-Omniversum

On Wednesday 19 October 2022, the board of the Nederlands Golfmuseum travelled to the Museon-Omniversum museum in The Hague. Not for a ... lees meer

Alderman of the Municipality of Bergen visits golf museum

Alderman of the Municipality of Bergen visits golf museum

On 22 September 2022, alderman Martijn Buijsse visited Landgoed Bleijenbeek and of course a tour of the Dutch Golf Museum was also on ... lees meer

Donation golf bag Christel Boeljon by Stichting Golf voor Gehandicapten

Donation golf bag Christel Boeljon by Stichting Golf voor Gehandicapten

On September 1, 2022, Wil Borst, treasurer at the Golf for the Disabled Foundation (www.gvoorg.nl) handed over the golf bag of ex-golf ... lees meer

Counter-visit of the KIGC Amsterdam

Counter-visit of the KIGC Amsterdam

In November 2021, John Ott and Jacques Schuiling were able to give a presentation on behalf of the Nederlands Golfmuseum at the Golf ... lees meer

Piet Rijkers donates Ping 1 A putter

Piet Rijkers donates Ping 1 A putter

The Ping putter owes its name to the specific "ping" sound that the putter makes when a ball is put. Now I have had a fairly new Ping ... lees meer

Reopening of the Dutch Golf Museum

Reopening of the Dutch Golf Museum

  On Saturday 23 April 2022, the Dutch Golfmuseum reopened its doors to the general public. The chairman of the Dutch Golf Museum ... lees meer

Colf sticks from Biddinghuizer colfschip on loan

Colf sticks from Biddinghuizer colfschip on loan

The Dutch Golf Museum has received some unique colfstok parts on loan, from a shipwreck that was excavated in 1984 west of ... lees meer

125 years of existing Rosendaelsche Golfclub

125 years of existing Rosendaelsche Golfclub

On 23 February 2022, Janelle van der Torren-Gerritsen, board member of the Rosendaelsche Golfclub, handed over the beautiful Jubilee ... lees meer

Visit of Sara Kieboom-Nijs

Visit of Sara Kieboom-Nijs

Sara Kieboom-Nijs is on her way to her home in France when she makes a stopover in Afferden on 12 March 2022 to visit the Dutch Golf ... lees meer

Important visit in Dutch Golf Museum

Important visit in Dutch Golf Museum

High visit in the golf museum, because the president(e) of the Dutch Golf Federlation (NGF), Caroline Huyskes, honoured the Dutch Golf ... lees meer

New Hoetjer acquisition

New Hoetjer acquisition

Harry and Gerard Hoetjes came to the Dutch Golf Museum on 28 February 2022 with a special device in their hands. Harry Hoetjer gave the lees meer

Golf museum receives Scottish clique on loan

Golf museum receives Scottish clique on loan

On 17 February 2022, the board travelled to Leiden to receive the Scottish clique on loan. Andre van Noort, archivist at Erfgoed Leiden lees meer

Lecture on Koninklijke Industrieele Groote Club

Lecture on Koninklijke Industrieele Groote Club

   Two years ago, the board of the Nederlands Golfmuseum Foundation was invited to give a lecture at the Koninklijke Industrieele ... lees meer

Family of Aleid Kemper visits golf museum

Family of Aleid Kemper visits golf museum

  After the death at the end of last year of Aleid Kemper, a rule expert at (inter)national golf competitions and collector of golf ... lees meer

Change cup on time at Dutch Open 2021

Change cup on time at Dutch Open 2021

Fortunately, the Dutch Open cup arrived on time at golf course Bernardus Golf in Cromvoirt. Because otherwise we would have missed the ... lees meer

Boomercup on loan from R&A World Golf Museum

Boomercup on loan from R&A World Golf Museum

  The Dutch Golf Museum has received the Boomercup on loan from the R&A World Golf Museum in St. Andrews. This second cup of ... lees meer

GolfchicksNL make vlog about golf museum

GolfchicksNL make vlog about golf museum

The GolfchicksNL, or Manja Schilstra and Margo Smeulers, visited the Dutch Golf Museum on Tuesday 3 August to get inspiration for a ... lees meer

Donation of collection of golf balls with car brands

Donation of collection of golf balls with car brands

    The NVGJ, short for the Dutch Association of Golf-Playing Journalists, visited the Dutch Golf Museum on 5 July 2021. And of course ... lees meer

Do Smit honours golf museum with visit

Do Smit honours golf museum with visit

On Wednesday 23 June 2021, Do Smit visited the Netherlands Golf Museum. Not so much as a golf enthusiast (after all, he does not play ... lees meer

Reopening golf museum on 5 June 2021

Reopening golf museum on 5 June 2021

The Dutch Golf Museum opened its doors again on 5 June 2021. Together with the other museums in the Netherlands, we have waited a long ... lees meer

In Memoriam Prof. Dr. Heiner Gillmeister 1939-2021

In Memoriam Prof. Dr. Heiner Gillmeister 1939-2021

(Professor of Middle English at the University of Bonn from 1968 till 2004 and a scholar of the history of sports. Retired Member of ... lees meer

New secretary dutch golf museum

New secretary dutch golf museum

     Jacques Schuiling from Elst (Gelderland) has been appointed secretary of the Netherlands Golf Museum as of 1 February 2021. The ... lees meer

Golf legacy of Aleid Kemper donated to museum

Golf legacy of Aleid Kemper donated to museum

Aleid Kemper passed away on 26 November 2020 after a short illness. She was 76 years old. Aleid was known within golf as a rule expert ... lees meer

In Memoriam Robbie van Erven Dorens

In Memoriam Robbie van Erven Dorens

Robbie van Erven Dorens, called Mister Golf by many, passed away last weekend at the age of 83. Robbie, himself an excellent golfer – ... lees meer

The Dutch Golf Museum goes digital!

The Dutch Golf Museum goes digital!

A look at the Dutch Golf Museum, that was not possible at all in the corona time, was it? After all, all museums were closed. And ... lees meer

Golf museum acquires the “KLM Open Night Watch”

Golf museum acquires the “KLM Open Night Watch”

Vlnr: Paul Way, Sergio Garcia, Rebkha Wu, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castãno, Martin Kaymer, David Lynn, Maarten Lafeber, Joost Luiten, Peter ... lees meer

Ingeborg Slikker donates golf books to museum

Ingeborg Slikker donates golf books to museum

Ingeborg Slikker, former NGF referee, donates a large part of the contents of her bookcase to the Nederlands Golfmuseum. Thanks to her ... lees meer

Cees Elshout donates stamps to golf museum

Cees Elshout donates stamps to golf museum

Cees Elshout, member of Golfclub Bleijenbeek, has donated his golf stamps to the Dutch Golf Museum. They have now been given a nice ... lees meer

Exhibition Golf postage stamps and Golf buttons (18-09-2019)

Exhibition Golf postage stamps and Golf buttons (18-09-2019)

From 18 September 2019, Rob van Tuyl and Ivo Melis will exhibit their extensive stamp collection and wave button collection in the ... lees meer

Denise Heiligers donates grandma’s golf bag

Denise Heiligers donates grandma’s golf bag

Recently, the museum got its hands on a seventies golf set with a striking design. A white skai leather bag with dark piping, a ... lees meer

Golf museum acquires historical painting

Golf museum acquires historical painting

Dutch Golf Museum acquires* historical painting of unknown Dutch master after a tip from  Jos Schatorjé, former director of the Limburg lees meer

Rob van Tuyl donates golf stamps Alan Shepard

Rob van Tuyl donates golf stamps Alan Shepard

Speaking Rob van Tuyl, who exhibited part of his golf brand collection at the museum in August 2019 and gave the museum a series about ... lees meer

NGF Early Golf gives historic golf clubs on loan

NGF Early Golf gives historic golf clubs on loan

NGF Early Golf has given the Nederlands Golfmuseum a large number of historic golf clubs on loan.      lees meer

NGF donates Arendsen de Wolff trophy to golf museum

NGF donates Arendsen de Wolff trophy to golf museum

This silver bowl was an exchange trophy of the national mixed competition for senior members of A and B clubs with a high handicap and ... lees meer

Maria Vrijmoed donates golf postage stamps

Maria Vrijmoed donates golf postage stamps

Maria Vrijmoed, a volunteer at the golf museum, also made a donation to the golf museum. A sheet of golf stamps from an inheritance. ... lees meer

Antique Clique and Kolf Balls

Antique Clique and Kolf Balls

An old Dutch saying goes like this. "He has clique and ball". This means that he has everything he needs. This saying comes from the ... lees meer

Golf bag by Gerrit van der Wal

Golf bag by Gerrit van der Wal

On 24 October 2018, Ferd Vrijmoed received a golf bag with golf sticks from Victor Veldhuijzen van Zantem on behalf of the Nederlands ... lees meer

Robin Bargmann’s Sunday sticks

Robin Bargmann’s Sunday sticks

        They are not made to play golf with them. If you take a cursory look at the Sunday sticks, which, thanks to Robin Bargmann, ... lees meer

Brian Gee donates two children’s clubs

Brian Gee donates two children’s clubs

Brian Gee, golf professional and avid hickory player, hands over the two children's clubs to board member Ferd Vrijmoed. The Dutch Golf lees meer

Bertus van Mook’s cup

Bertus van Mook’s cup

Bertus van Mook, 82 years old, looks energetic. Talk a lot and still regularly play a game of golf at Golf & Country Club ... lees meer

Albert Bloemendaal donates golf books to golf museum

Albert Bloemendaal donates golf books to golf museum

  Albert Bloemendaal, author of various golf books and collector of them. He donated part of his collection to the Dutch Golf ... lees meer

The golf buttons of Yvo Melis

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 ... lees meer

Iain Forrester lends golf sticks to golf museum

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 ... lees meer

Donation of 300 golf books strengthens library

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 ... lees meer

Society of Sports Friends DE 144 donates Masters flag

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 lees meer

Donation Club de Crosse by Geert and Sara Nijs

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 ... lees meer

KLM Open memorabilia

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.  ... lees meer

Iain Forrester gives Hickory clubs on loan

Iain Forrester gives Hickory clubs on loan

Iain Forrester is a golf pro at Golf & Country club Hoenshuis in Voerendaal and a specialist in the field of historical golf ... lees meer

Joost Luijten visits KLM Open stand Dutch Golf Museum

Joost Luijten visits KLM Open stand Dutch Golf Museum

  Joost Luiten, currently the only Dutch top golfer. The exchange cup ofthe KLM Open has a place of honour in the museum. Joost Luiten ... lees meer

Amsterdam Golf Club

Amsterdam Golf Club

On Saturday 11 March 2017, a delegation from the Amsterdam Golf Club visited the Dutch Golf Museum. v.l.n.r. Harm Raymans, Pieter ... lees meer

Royal Tichelaar Makkum

Royal Tichelaar Makkum

On Saturday 18 March 2017, the Netherlands Golf Museum received three tiles from the private collection of Piet Tichelaar made in the ... lees meer

Golf clubs of Peter Marsden

Golf clubs of Peter Marsden

    Peter Marsden, oud R.A.F. piloot, gehuwd met een Nederlandse vrouw, is de zoon van wijlen R.W. Marsden. Hij vond na het ... lees meer

Mister Golf buggy now in golf museum

Mister Golf buggy now in golf museum

Robby Van Erven Dorens, also known as Mister Golf, has donated his golf cart to the Dutch Golf Museum. On Saturday, March 18, 2017, ... lees meer

Visit Robin Bargmann

Visit Robin Bargmann

On 25 January 2017, the Netherlands Golf Museum received the above painting from 1924 on loan from Robin Bargmann. From left to right: ... lees meer

Romana Oosterbeek-Airoldi makes her husband’s dream come true

Romana Oosterbeek-Airoldi makes her husband’s dream come true

Romana Oosterbeek-Airoldi is married to Herman Oosterbeek, whose dream was to one day establish her own golf museum. Romana tells us: " lees meer

Presentation flag Masters 2015

Presentation flag Masters 2015

The Dutch Golf Museum experienced a memorable moment. Ferd Vrijmoed of the museum board, together with Dirk Jan Vink of golf course ... lees meer

Ramon van Wingerden (NGF) donates medal to golf museum

Ramon van Wingerden (NGF) donates medal to golf museum

Ramon van Wingerden, Manager Sports Development NGF, organized a golf exhibition in the Hague Historical Museum in 2014 in honor of the lees meer

Golf museum opened on 22 April 2016

Golf museum opened on 22 April 2016

Golf is not a Scottish invention but a Dutch one, there is some evidence for that. But true or not, the Netherlands didn't even have a ... lees meer