Object Name: Club, Golf
Other Name: CLUB, METAL, WOOD SHAFT
Date: ca 1924
Description: Leather grip, natural finish shaft, metal blade, dot stamped face, metal cap on end of grip, maker’s marks on back of blade. No shaft stamp, no sole stamp.
Maker: NICHOLL, GEORGE
Material: metal, wood, leather
Dimension Details: Overall: 37″; grip: 14 3/4″; blade: 5 3/8″ (toe to hosel), 3 5/8′ x 1 5/8″ x 1/2″
Marks/Inscriptions: Mashie Used by Cyril Walker at Oakland Hills G.C. Birmingham, Mich,. when he won U.S.G.A. Open 1915 (redacted in faded ink) 1924 (hand written), 8K; (on card attached to shaft) Hand Forged in Scotland, George Nicoll (in signature), Leven, Fife, Scotland; H.B. Shute (in signature); 2 Mashie, hand cleek mark (all on back of blade)
Additional Notes: Time magazine noted Walker’s death in a jail cell at age 56 in 1948, with this brief obit: Died. Cyril Walker, 56, wispy, hard—drinking golf professional, who beat out Bobby Jones to win the U.S. Open Championship in 1924; of pleural pneumonia; in a Hackensack, N.J. jail cell, where he had gone for shelter. After winning the Open, English—born Walker gradually drank himself out of big—time competition, at one time worked as a caddy, ended up a dishwasher.
Object ID: GM 104
