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...

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 materials. He repairs antique golf clubs and prepares them for hickory competitions. “The oldest clubs you will find in the...

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 has a busy life. At least thirty-five weeks a year he is on the road to participate in themost important golf tournaments in the...

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 Kroon, John Ott, Gerard Jol, Ferd Vrijmoed, Geert Jan Bakker, Theo van Diem, Geert Janssen, Jelle Timmenga, Gert Kuit    The museum was...

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 renowned ceramics factory of Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum (1572) from Ad de Vries. Tile 1: 1640-1660 golfer; edge motif Wan-Li Tile 2:...