Does anyone know

[Patrick_Mucci]

where to find a Haskell wound ball and a wooden ball ?

GCGC is looking to round out their collection and needs a Haskell wound ball and a wooden ball.

Please contact me via IM if you know where I can locate one or both.

Thanks

[Tommy_Naccarato]

Pat, I would look on Ebay first.

How about that class act today at the end of the game?!?! Charlie Weiss is my idea of what a football coach should be all about. I say give him a 20 year contract! 10 years is not enough.

Go Irish!

[Gene Greco]

Patrick:

    Your first source should be the Golf Collector's Society.

  Two individuals who are members of the GCS who have premier golf ball collections are Gary Wiren of Palm Beach, FL and John Olman of Cincinnatti, Ohio. Mr. Olman has a shop which was started by his father Mort and I'm sure he would have the Haskell GCGC is looking for. I believe its called Ye Olde Golf Shop.

However, the wooden balls were replaced by featheries in the 1500s to early 1600s and are quite rare. Good quality featheries can fetch well into the five figures so it's my guess the value of authentic wooden balls might be quite steep.

You may also call the USGA in Far Hills and ask for names of other individuals who have donated historic golf balls to the museum and might be willing to part with others for the club.

[Patrick_Mucci]

Tommy,

I thought it was a touching tribute and I thought Brady's comments on why the team and coaches participated was equally poignant.

It's another aspect of what makes ND special.

I"ll try ebay.

When do they play USC next year ?

[Tommy_Naccarato]

Turkeyday weekend I believe. We'll have a blast! The team usually stays at the Anaheim Hilton and the hotel is filled with all sorts of great stuff going on throughout the weekend.

The Notre Dame Bookstore also sets up shop there and they of course have the pep ralley the night before.  

[wsmorrison]

A trivia question:  

What golf club did Coburn Haskell belong when he invented the Haskell ball?

[Joe Andriole]

Mayfield Heights CC; Cleveland

[wsmorrison]

Here's the account from 1964 history book of The Country Club in Pepper Pike:

"Haskell, one of the club's better golfers, had a particularly bad round with one of Mitchell's Norkas (a gutty ball), according to the story, and was sitting gloomily on the club porch twisting a rubber band around a finger.  That was the moment for the flash of intuition.  Work (Bertram G. Work, Haskell's friend and superintendent of the B.F. Goodrich Co.) rushed the idea back to Akron (home of BF Goodrich), a patent was obtained and the rest is history.

...The first Haskell's added at least 20 yards but were erratic in flight.  Indentations on the surface were part of the remedy.  In a few years the Haskells had been improved enough to consign gutty to oblivion.

..These first rubber-cored and rubber-wound balls were practically smooth which accounted for their erratic flight.  the next Haskell ball that came out had a mesh marking and it was with this ball that Walter Travis won the British championship in 1904, being the first American to win it."

Maybe he was a member of Mayfield Heights CC as well.  I don't know but The Country Club claim the inspiration came there.

[ForkaB]

Pat

Next time you play with TE Paul, just rummage down in the bottom of his golf bag when he is not looking.

Glad to be of help.

[Patrick_Mucci]

Rich Goodale,

That's a chore that no sane man would undertake.

There's no acounting for what might live or reside there.

I'll pay the caddy extra to explore those dark areas.