[Chris Buie]

If you are a GCA contributor or reader you no doubt have an appreciation of the history of the game.  This archive has a wide range of short film clips of many of the courses discussed on the forum - and not just the obvious ones.  How about a 1910 film of Cruden Bay?  Or Formby in 1928 - Dick Chapman winning the British Am at Porthcawl in '51.  You get the idea.   
You'll wish they were a bit longer and showed more of the course, but never-the-less...
Under the bottom right of the video is a little icon you can click on to view in full screen.  Also, you can type the name of a course that particularly interests you in the search function if you don't want to browse through all those clips.
http://www.britishpathe.com/results.php?search=golf&o=0
There is even a film of Pinehurst in 1938. 

[Jim_Kennedy]

Chris,
Thanks for the link.

I was having alook at Ms. Lawson in Pinehurst and the hole she's on looks familiar, is it possibly one of the 4s at SPCC?

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=17646

[Craig Disher]

Chris - great find.

SPCC was my first guess but the last hole on the clip appears to be the 7th on PH #3. The topography looks right. The hole before it though is a puzzle.

The clip must have been taken around 1937-8. #3 had grass greens at least as early as 1939.

[Chris Buie]

Mr. Disher is correct.  That is what is now the 7th hole on #3.  The other hole is the current 15th hole on #5.  Both were part of the original #3.  If that course existed today as it did then and the 8000 houses and condos they built on it were not there we would be calling it a minor gem.  As it is now there is still some of the old magic there - worth one play anyway.
I sometimes get asked which Resort course to play other than #2.  I would say #1 because it is the closest to how it originally was - it is not terribly far off.  After that #3 - Crenshaw likes #3 quite a bit.
Anyway, there are a lot of good clips in that archive.

[Niall C]

Chris

Absolutely fantastic stuff. Love the clipp of Jones walking over the Swilken Bridge. Looking to see if I can spot Keeler or MacKenzie, not yet but still looking.

Cheers

Niall

[Martin Toal]

On of the videos I saw was of the Girl's Championship at Stoke Poges. Some of you will know that Stoke Poges, now called Stoke Park , was the location for the famous match between James Bond and Goldfinger, and was designed by HS Colt. One pf the par-3s inspired Alister McKenzie's design of the 12th at Augusta. It is only a shortish drive from the Sunningdale, Wentworth. Swinley area.

http://www.stokeparkclub.com/golf/index.html

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