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ÅRSSKRIFT E E T V S A summary of Årsskrift 2012. 2012 Published by The Swedish Society of Historians. GOLFKLUBB

This picture from 1915 shows the second tee at the Råsunda course. This is where play will start when the course is reopened for two days in September. The green is in front of the bushes, straight ahead. Golfers return to Råsunda Golfers will return in September societies in other countries are to Råsunda links, just north of also welcome to play. . This is where Ted Roberts from Hoylake Stockholms Golfklubb built its came to Råsunda in 1914 to second course in 1912. To serve as the club’s professional. celebrate the centenary we will He stayed in the job until 1978. open the course for two days. On his first day the chairman You are welcome to play. of the green committee took him around the course. After a long Stockholms Golfklubb played at walk Ted asked: Råsunda from 1912 to 1926. The ”Where is the golf course?” former golf course is now a park, ”The golf course?”, answered named The Golf Meadows. Six of the chairman. ”We just walked Peter Nordwall found the the original ten holes are play- around it.” Råsunda course, where able today. That says something about the Stockholms Golfklubb The course will open on course we will play in September. played from 1912. Saturday 1 September for But organizer Peter Nordwall is honorary guests and on Sunday convinced that players will feel 2 September for members of the same enthusiasm as golfers Stockholms Golfklubb and The 100 years ago. Swedish Society of Golf Histo- Contact Peter if you want to rians. Members of golf historical play: [email protected].

1 Sven Tumba lifted golf in Sven Tumba, who passed away and drive which helped the game on 1 October 2011, took golf in to grow. Golf photographer and Sweden from an exclusive game SGS member Ronny Karlsson has to a popular sport. yet another story to tell.

RONNY KARLSSON Tumba came late to golf, when It is about Sven Tumba’s he was already established as match in 1979 against the young Sweden’s leading players at Sollentuna GK, just player. His 186 goals in 245 north of Stockholm. Ronny was games for the national team still head of the club’s junior commit- stands as a record. tee. He invited Tumba to a match Two things happened when against 18 boys and girls, play- Tumba also qualified for the ing one hole each. national team in golf. Sven Tumba immediately First, the sporting press star- accepted the challenge. ted to cover golf. Second, Swedes On the short fifth hole he was flocked to golf clubs to have a go up against nine-year-old Johan at Tumba’s new game. After an Flodberg. Tumba hit his tee-shot exhibition game in rural Billerud, to five feet from the hole. Johan, for example, 30 spectators joined who received three handicap the club. strokes, drove with a sawn off Sven Tumba brought in Arnold ladies’ brassie and was two feet Palmer, and Sam from the hole in four. Snead to show Swedes how golf Tumba offered a half, but is played at the highest level. He Johan said: took the initiative to the Volvo ”First you putt, then you can Open Championship, which give me my putt.” developed into today’s Scandi - So Tumba made his birdie and navian Masters. He also started then conceded Johan’s putt for a the European Open at Walton half. Johan was happy and jum- Sven Tumba holed in two Heath in 1978. ped at Tumba to give him a hug. and then conceded Johan Since Sven Tumba died last Ronny caught the action with Flodberg’s putt for a half. autumn, players and organizers his camera. Johan thanked Sven with a of golf in Sweden have paid tribu- Sven Tumba and the Sollen- hug. te to the power of his enthusiasm tuna team halved their match. Golf Museum remembers Tumba The Swedish Golf Museum has The Tumba exhibition will be opened an exhibition in memory open until the end of June. The of Sven Tumba. Curator Hasse next special exhibition will be Bergdahl said he wants to show about Sweden’s players in the

RONNY KARLSSON four aspects of Tumba: The play- Ryder Cup and Solheim Cup. er, the missionary, the organizer The Swedish Golf Museum is of championships and the trade- situated at Landskrona Golfklubb, mark. near Malmö in the south. Web pictures are best saved on paper When Claes Åkerblom started to as low-resolution copies, research the history of his club, unsuitable for printing. Billeruds GK, he easily found Professional archivists advise material from the early years in golf clubs to print archive copies the 1950s. But when he came of pictures published on the Hasse Bergdahl, curator of into the 21st century it became Internet. A paper copy of a pictu- the Swedish Golf Museum, difficult. re is not as good as a high- polished the trophy of the Much material had been resolution digital copy, but it is Scandinavian Enterprise published on the club’s website, better than the usual web Open before opening the but had never been printed. Lists pictures – and much better than Museum’s exhibition on of members and other important having no picture at all. Sven Tumba. information were hard to find. Any material stored on digital Searching recent photographs media must also be looked after. posed a special problem. While The Swedish National Archive black and white paper copies of warns that a CD lasts ten years, early pictures were well preserved, at best. Colour prints on paper digital pictures from a few years should be stored in envelopes in ago were either lost or saved only a cool and dry place.

2 2012 Swedish Hickory Champions: Perry Defending Champion Britta Nord won the Atmosphere Somers and Anette Knutsson. Prize with her golfing ensemble, inspired by Joyce Wethered, left with Bobby Jones. Two new champions at Gotland Perry Somers and Anette Anette, playing for Lundsbrunn Knutsson won the 2011 Swedish GK in south-western Sweden, Hickory Championships, played came in early with a score that JÖRGEN LINSE at Visby Golfklubb’s Kronholmen none of the seeded favourites course on the island of Gotland. could better. Ove Stenbeck won the seniors’ Ove, a veteran of Helsingborgs championship. GK in the south, secured his Perry comes from Australia and championship in a playoff against is teaching professional at the Golf Sweden’s successful Grail player & Country Club Velderhof in Claes Kvist, from the same club. Germany. While others struggled Ove also won in 2007. on the tricky slopes around the Yvonne Carlsson, Lundsbrunn Kronholmen greens, Perry made GK, won the handicap competition few mistakes. For a spectator who Svenska Hickorykannan. does not realize how difficult it is, his game would look almost boring.

Jörgen Isberg holed his Championship moves to Lund bunker shot for an eagle at the 18th hole in the The 15th Swedish Hickory holes on Saturday. All champion - first round. He shared the Championship will be played on ships are scratch stroke-play Scott’s Putter award for 28–29 July at Lunds Akademiska competitions. the most memorable stro- Golfklubb. Lund is situated in On the Sunday we will also play ke of the Championship southern Sweden, near Malmö for Svenska Hickorykannan, a with Visby’s Magnus and with easy access to handicap competition. Olsson. Copenhagen’s Kastrup airport. The first Swedish Match Play The gentlemen’s championship Hickory Championship will be is decided over 36 holes on the played in Ljunghusen, also in the Saturday and Sunday. At least 50 south, on 21–22 July. players will qualify for the second For more information, please round. The ladies and the seniors’ visit the SGS website: championships are played over 18 http://golfhistoriska.golf.se 3 GÖTEBORGS GOLF KLUBB

The Arendal course was situated on an island, just outside Gothenburg on Sweden’s west coast. Found: Sweden’s first hole in one Mr L. Westness holed his tee shot fourth hole was 55 metres and Mr at the fourth hole on the Arendal Westness used a niblick. course, outside Gothenburg, on 8 This, unfortunately, is the last June 1894. We think that it was we know of L Westness. There is Sweden’s first hole in one. no further trace of him in This successful shot was recor- Setterberg’s meticulously kept ded by Viktor Hugo Setterberg, records. the man who got golf going in Sweden. The entry was recently l A 55 metres hole is not so found by the historical committee short. When Swedish professional of Göteborgs Golf Klubb. Daniel Chopra made two holes in In 1894 Viktor Setterberg had one during a practice round at Viktor Hugo Setterberg just laid out the Arendal course. Pebble Beach in February, one of organized early golf in Mr Westness’ hole in one came in them came at the 94 metres Gothenburg. the inauguration tournament. The seventh hole. A new look at Jones’ Grand Slam Set Bobby Jones’ so called Grand attached to the back of the Slam Set, displayed at Augusta niblick. National, does not look like the set Bobby Jones presented the that Jones painstakingly Grand Slam Set to the Augusta assembled during his playing club in 1948, 18 years after the career, writes Owe Werner. Grand Slam. Owe speculates that Jones has written that by 1927 by then Jones had given away or he had a set of clubs that he was lost most of the clubs that he comfortable with. They were used in 1930. If so, most of the analysed with the technique of the clubs at Augusta are probably time and found to be well matched. some of those that he had tried But the clubs on display in but which had not been good Augusta varies in swing weight enough to go into his tournament and length of shafts. Some clubs bag. have been filed down, seemingly Owe runs Golflinks, where he in an attempt to adjust weight. restores and sells hickory clubs And there is a piece of lead and hires out sets. Georg Kittel heads Golf Historians At the 2011 annual general mee- Georg is a member of Flommens ting, Georg Kittel took over as Golfklubb on the Falsterbo penin- chairman of the Swedish Society sula on the southern tip of of Golf Historians. He succeeded Sweden. He is a book collector Hasse Bergdahl, who is now cura- and wrote his club’s history for its Georg Kittel. tor of the Swedish Golf Museum. 75th anniversary in 2010.

Swedish Society of Golf Historians. Please visit our website: http://golf historiska.golf.se. Sveriges Hickorykalender has information about hickory golf tournaments in Sweden. President: Georg Kittel, [email protected]. Hon Secretary: Hans Grandin, [email protected].

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