Object Name: Club, Golf
Other Name: CLUB, WOOD, WOOD SHAFT
Date: 1860—1875
Year Range from: 1860
Year Range to: 1875
Description: Wooden club with scared neck, leather grip and spliced clubhead with backweight and horn insert. Dark brown finish on clubhead. Maker’s stamp.
Maker: MORRIS, T.
Material: wood, leather, horn, lead
Dimension Details: Overall: 44″; grip: 12″; clubhead: 5″ x 1 3/4″ x 1 1/8″
Marks/Inscriptions: T. MORRIS (maker’s mark), PUTTER by WILLIE PARK (name redacted) Musselburgh, Scotland, T. MORRIS (name added in black ink) PERIOD 1860—75. Willie Park won first British Open Championship in 1860 and won it again in 1863, 1866, and 1865. 21B (on card attached to shaft); 27 (on adhesive label attached to shaft)
Object ID: GM 34
