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It’s an industry in its :meZg^ZcXZ i]Z edlZg d[ &% Vi e^c\edlZgd[&%#Xdb# own right, with trade shows, auctions and numer- ousW small gatherings all organized by and for people who treasure the arti- facts that connect the modern game with the ancient game. The following section gives an inside look into why acquiring golf collectibles is almost as much a sport as the game itself. OF SOTHEBY’S COURTESY '%%- E>C< E#D# 7DM -'%%% E=D:C>M! 6O -*%,& B<(%- 8Vaa&"-%%")"E>C<";>I[dgi]ZE>C< 8ajW";^ii^c\HeZX^Va^hicZVgndj# WWW.MGAGOLF.ORG THE MET GOLFER • FEBRUARY/MARCH 2008 27 bought a new putter last week. This will not come as a surprise to anyone who has played with me, worked with me, given me a golf lesson, coached me, casually mentioned golf to me, or otherwise expressed even a passing interest in what’s in my bag. Drivers and putters alone, I could open up a retail store in my basement. Or I could just wait and hope Ithat if these implements never achieve the glory they once promised on the field of play, they might some day become what folks who value these sorts of things call “collectible.” Golf memorabilia auctions draw an enthusiastic Chances are they won’t, and if they do, it’s books ever written. It also won unlikely I’ll be around long enough to see the Murdoch Medal, awarded in crowd of collectors who often pay top dollar for the them regain their luster. The clubs that I buy, Great Britain for outstanding BY ROBERT DURKIN try, and sooner or later vilify, are more likely achievement in golf literature. game’s most cherished items to rust in a darkened corner than to shimmer Revised and expanded in 2007, The in a display case. Which brings us back to that Clubmaker’s Art is now a massive putter I bought last week. It’s different from two-volume set featuring 1,250 illus- all those other putters that I have bought over trations, many in full color. And it’s a the years. You see, I don’t expect or even hope fabulous way to enjoy the beauty of these that this one will have me “rolling ’em like clubs without spending two small fortunes Faxon.” In fact, I don’t ever plan on making and thirty-plus years as a collector. a stroke with this one. Ellis is a pleasant fellow, and he shared his Last fall, I attended the auction of the Jef- enthusiasm for both club making and history fery B. Ellis Antique Golf Club Collection, with me one Wednesday afternoon prior to held at Sotheby’s in New York City. It was the the auction. We were introduced by Leila first auction of this type to which I had ever Dunbar, a Senior Vice President and Director been witness. And, judging by my surprising of the Collectibles Department at Sotheby’s. willingness to dangerously wave a numbered Ellis played the patient pedagogue, with me paddle in the air, I’m grateful it wasn’t an perfectly type-cast as a club-collecting novice. offering of Impressionist masterpieces. But as He inquired at the outset if there were any par- much as this is the story of my penchant for ticular clubs I was interested in. I expressed my purchasing putters, it is also the story of affection for a copy of the Bobby Jones another man’s obsession with clubs of every “Calamity Jane” putter I had seen in the hefty conceivable kind. catalogue Sotheby’s had prepared for the Jeffrey Ellis represents the combination of upcoming auction. Ellis noted the collection research, precision, and just plain guts that it held several Jones putters, and that they takes to become a renowned golf collector. would be among the “newer” clubs in the col- What began with a seventy-two dollar invest- lection. He added that they were beautiful ment at a Goodwill store in West Allis, Wis- clubs, and excellent examples of their kind, consin, in 1972, grew into one man’s crusade from which I inferred that they were not the to collect, document, analyze and preserve stars of the collection. not only the golf clubs themselves, but the I was not without motive in my inquiry, passion of the clubmaker as well. Along the being as I am a great fan of the gentleman from way he also documented the history of the Georgia. Jones’s reputation as both player and game and the stories of the men who, for over person is without peer. He was a champion in two and a half centuries, have combined every sense of the word; educated, articulate science, craft, art and alchemy in the manu- and above all honorable. Additionally, one of facture of golf clubs. the Jones putters was among the handful of While assembling his unprecedented col- items I suspected I might be able to afford. lection, Ellis began cataloging, photograph- The putter has a Met Area connection. ing, and writing about every significant club Jones was playing a round at Nassau Coun- and clubmaker known. The resulting book, try Club prior to the 1923 U.S. Open at The Clubmaker’s Art, was first published as a Inwood, and Nassau pro Jim Maiden lent him single volume in 1997, and was named to a Calamity Jane, which Maiden had found and Opposite: Auction action heats up at Sotheby’s. Golf World list of the top 10 golf books of the fitted with a new shaft. Jones never gave it 20th century. Travel and Leisure Golf called back to Maiden. Top: A Robert Wilson it the “heavyweight champion — literally” After first ensuring that I got a good look lofting iron from Scotland, and included it on a list of the top 25 golf at a group of 300-year-old clubs that were in circa 1880, sold for $625. COURTESY OF SOTHEBY’S COURTESY 28 THE MET GOLFER • FEBRUARY/MARCH 2008 WWW.MGAGOLF.ORG WWW.MGAGOLF.ORG THE MET GOLFER • FEBRUARY/MARCH 2008 29 the premier showcase, Ellis took me into “Jumbo Driver” by Scottish clubmaker Ben Dunbar was to act as auctioneer at the first of you can buy them. Ross Perot is selling his Jeffrey Ellis with part of another of the three rooms it required to dis- Sayers. And there has been a full century of four sessions, and as the main hall on the sec- copy. Seriously. [The Magna Carta sold for his collection, which play his collection. “Ah, here we are,” he said, puttering with, well, putters. The results have ond floor at Sotheby’s began to fill with the $21 million on December 18]. included multiple copies of Calamity Jane (below). as we approached a locked glass showcase, included adjustable putters, center shafted hopeful, the foolish, and the merely curious, Fortunately for me, I was only looking to which housed three different Calamity Jane putters, T-Frame putters, cylindrical putters, I took my seat, numbered paddle in hand. secure for myself a minor specimen from the Putters. “Now this one is a prototype, and it’s overspin putters, and even putters that incor- Two giant screens behind the auctioneer history of American golf, and not the history different in that it doesn’t have the Spalding porated an umbrella in the shaft for those displayed the current item that was up for auc- of our nation. The Bobby Jones clubs came company stamp, but instead, a unique flying sudden spring showers. tion, referred to as a “lot number,” and each up fairly close to the end of the morning crow cleat mark. And as you can see, the Jones The modern swing-aid club has a long his- screen also displayed the bid price in euros, session in which Ms. Dunbar had solicited signature doesn’t include the ‘Jr.’ It would tory as well. That Medicus hinged-club wining bids on some 140 lots in an hour’s probably be a little easier to see if we could you’ve been trying to keep from showing time, with most items selling at or above their take the club out.” your multiple swing flaws? Try George anticipated prices. Form held true when the After a moment’s pause Ellis seemed to Nicoll’s hickory shafted version, first appear- rare prototype Ellis had allowed me to hold remember something and said: “Wait, I have ing some eighty years ago. And the Momen- sold for fifteen hundred dollars “in the room” a key! Why don’t I just take it out?” and after tus weighted driver that promised ten extra to a buyer who had shown plenty of purchas- fishing around briefly in his jacket pocket, he yards, only to deliver a sprained back? None ing power on earlier items.
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