Museum news
Reopening of the Dutch golf museum
On Saturday 23 April 2022, the Nederlands Golfmuseum reopened its doors to the general public. The chairman of the Dutch Golf Museum...
Dutch Golf Museum Open Hickory Tournament 23 April 2022
Start of the Dutch Hickory Tour 2022:DGM Open Hickory Tournament 23 April 2022 The...
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...
Bezoek van Sara Kieboom-Nijs
Sara Kieboom-Nijs is op doorreis naar haar huis in Frankrijk als zij op 12 maart 2022 even een tussenstop in Afferden maakt om het Nederlands...
Hoog bezoek in Nederlands Golfmuseum
Hoog bezoek in het golfmuseum, want de president(e) van de Nederlandse Golf Federlatie (NGF), Caroline Huyskes, vereerde het Nederlands...
Nieuwe Hoetjer-aanwinst
Harry en Gerard Hoetjes kwamen op 28 februari 2022 naar het Nederlands Golfmuseum met een speciaal apparaat in hun handen. Harry Hoetjer gaf...
Golfmuseum ontvangt Schotse kliek in bruikleen
Op 17 februari 2022 reisde het bestuur af naar Leiden om de Schotse kliek in bruikleen te ontvangen. Andre van Noort, archivaris bij Erfgoed...
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...
Results of the J.W. Buckland Hickory Trophy 23 October 2021
Both PGA professionals and amateurs participated in this well organised event by the Hickory Society Cologne on the Kölner Golfclub, in Cologne....
Dutch Golf Museum Open Hickory Tournament 3 October 2021
On Sunday, October 3, the NGM Open Hickory Tournament took place. In the end, eighteen brave men and women ignored the weather conditions by...
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...
Geijsteren Hickory Open Championship 2021
On 31 July the Geijsteren Hickory Open Championship 2021 took place. The participants were very happy to see each other again after so many months....
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...
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 – he became...
Dutch Hickory Tour 2020
On Saturday 10 October 2020, the last tournament of 2020 by the Dutch Hickory Society took place at Golfclub Landgoed Bleijenbeek.Despite the...
Geijsteren Open Hickory Championship 22 August 2020
Finally we could win the first tournament ofthe Dutch Hickory Society 2020 at the GCC Geijsteren! The business, the golf course and the weather were...
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 although they are...
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 Townsend,...
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 generous...
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 spot in the...
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 Nederlands...
Dutch Hickory Tour 2019
While enjoying a drink, the prize giving was held by Ferd Vrijmoed on behalf of the Dutch Golf Museum and Robin Bargmann, new president of the...
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 matching cart...
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 Museum A...
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 Alan Shepard,...
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.
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 was awarded...
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. Two years ago,...
Dutch Hickory Tour Order Of Merit 2018
The Dutch Hickory Tour 2018 Order of Merit is based on the total of a minimum, and when played more the best, of 4 scores of the 7 tournaments. The...
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 pump sport....
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 Golfmuseum...
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, have recently...
Domburgsche Hickory Open Championship 7 October 2018
The final tournament of the Dutch Hickory Tour 2018 took place under truly fantastic weather conditions at the Domburgsche Golfclub. Winners: ...
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 Museum is...
Nunspeet Hickory Championship 23 September 2018
txt Bruto winnaar: Brian Gee Netto winnaar dames: Britta NordNetto winnaar heren: Peter Scholz
International Dutch Hickory Open Ullerberg 22 September 2018
Op de mooie 9-holes heidebaan streden de deelnemers in het vijfde toernooi van de Dutch Hickory Tour om het al weer negende kampioenschap van...
Pro & Amateur Open Hickory Geijsteren 25 August 2018
Golf & Country Club Geijsteren was het vierde strijdtoneel binnen de Dutch Hickory Tour. Bij gelukkig niet al te warm...
The Dutch Golf Newspaper
From 2017, the Dutch Golf Museum will write an article about an interesting golf object or golf person in De Nederlandse Golfkrant. This is then...
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 Geijsteren in Limburg,...
1st International Hickory Open Championship Burg Zievel 1 July 2018
Gelukkig kon het derde toernooi van de Dutch Hickory Tour 2018 op Burg Zievel dit jaar wel plaats vinden, met ook een goede deelname van de...
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 Museum. It did...