Museum news
Gerard Snelderwaard schenkt eerste elektrische golftrolley
Gerard Snelderwaard (84 jaar) is nog steeds een fanatieke golfspeler. Hij heeft meer dan veertig jaar in de golfsector gewerkt, onder andere als...
Recording PodjeGolf in golf museum
The board of the Netherlands Golf Museum received an email some time ago from Kees Rietveld, a Friend of the Golf Museum and board member of...
NGF Chairman Visits Golf Museum
Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming Marcel van Loo, the new chairman of the Dutch Golf Federation (NGF), to the golf museum. Of course with...
„Dutch Open” collection expanded again
Willem van den Elskamp is a true collector of everything related to the Dutch Open. As a golf journalist, Willem has attended many editions...
Group IJZERSTERK’ from Kennemer Golf Club visits golf museum
In early September, 28 golfers from the Kennemer Golf Club in Zandvoort visited the Dutch Golf Museum for a guided tour. Not just any group of...
Albert Bloemendaal, Friend of the Golf Museum
Last Monday, board members John Ott and Ferd Vrijmoed paid a visit to the 97-year-old writer and golf historian Albert Bloemendaal. Albert was happy...
Treasure hunting in old golf clubs and golf bags
As mentioned before, we regularly receive golf items as a golf museum. These are usually just a few pieces, and the giver knows who originally owned...
Prize cups collected again for competitions
Every club golfer notices that the golf season has started again at their first club competition. As the Dutch Golf Museum, we notice this because...
86-year-old Diana Mertens lends 8 special children’s kolf shoes
The Dutch Golf Museum and Diana Mertens have known each other since 2015. Through a tip from Do Smit of the Dutch Kolf Association, John Ott learned...
NGF director presents gift
Two weeks ago, PGA Holland, the umbrella organization for playing and teaching golf professionals, celebrated its 100th anniversary. On the occasion...
Widow of Golfers Magazine founder donates books
The Dutch Golf Museum was called by Reina Kokke, widow of JanKees Kokke, who passed away in May 2023. In addition to being a golfer at the Kennemer...
Seven members of Kromme Rijn Golf Club visiting
Wednesday morning is often busy with golfers at the Landgoed Bleijenbeek pavilion, but last Wednesday there were seven new faces. Members of Golf...
Donation of Lesson Tapestry Golf Rules and Putter
The Nunspeetse (Nunspeetse Golf and Country Club De Verwaeyde Sandbergen) has had its home course at Het Rijk van Nunspeet since 1987. It was...
2nd edition Dutch Golf Museum Cup on September 28, 2024
Visit by NGF director to golf museum
Now that the KLM Open 2024 has a new winner in Guido Migliozzi, the Dutch Open trophy returns to its familiar place in the Netherlands Golf Museum....
Radio interview at KLM Open 2024
Of course, the board and volunteers of the Dutch Golf Museum were also present as visitors at the KLM Open 2024. Chairman John and treasurer Ferd...
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 of the Dutch...
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 Marianne Gmelig...
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 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...