Object Name: Club, Golf
Other Name: CLUB, WOOD, WOOD SHAFT
Date: 1897—1904
Year Range from: 1897
Year Range to: 1904
Description: Wood club with socket head, leather grip, lined face, horn insert, maker’s mark and shaft stamp. Natural finish on clubhead and dark finish on shaft.
Maker: SPALDING, A.G. & BROS.
Material: wood, leather, horn
Dimension Details: Overall: 45 1/2″ grip: 11 1/4″ clubhead:3″ x 2 1/4″ x 1 1/8″
Marks/Inscriptions: DRIVER by A.G. SPALDING & BROS. PERIOD 1899—1901, One of the earliest socket head woods. Used by Dr. Anna Moon Randolph at Hampton Roads Golf & Country Club. Donated by F.R. white, Newport News, Va. 8G (on card attached to shaft); THE SPALDING (shaft stamp and maker’s mark); R (carved into neck above heel)
Additional Notes: Dr. Anna Moon Randolph graduated from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1899. At that time, she was one of only 6 female doctors in Virginia and the first female physician on the Peninsula. She was a member of the Newport News Medical Society. Donor: Coach F. R. White was the sixth and then later the eighth head college football coach for the The Apprentice School Builders located in Newport News, Virginia and he held that position for four seasons. Authored a book about Homer Ferguson.
Object ID: GM 94
