Museum news
Redactie Het Panflet interviewt golfmuseum
Altijd leuk als de redactie van een golfclub naar het golfmuseum wil komen om een interview af te nemen. En extra leuk als dit de voltallige...
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 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 the KLM Open...
Succesvolle eerste Nederlands Golfmuseum Cup
Zaterdag 15 juli 2023 werd voor de eerste keer de Nederlands Golfmuseum Cup georganiseerd. Met aansluitend op zondag de Nederlandse Golfkrant...
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 he still had...
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. Because from...
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 echter ook...
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 Dijk was...
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 first Dutch...
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 father was an...
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 made of...
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 since Jeroen was...
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 Handicap System...
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 day of 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 the program....
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 professional...
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 Table of the...
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 putter for...
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 Foundation,...
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 Biddinghuizen in...
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 book "From...
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 Museum She...
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 Museum in...
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 swing weight...
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 en...
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 Groote Club in...
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 books and golf...
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 beautiful...
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 the Open Dutch...
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 vlog. John, Ferd...
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 they took...
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 golf), but as...
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 time for this...
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 the Department...
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 brand new...
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 and collector...