The highlight of this private collection is the featherie balls, early golf books and early golf oil paintings and watercolors. Excellent examples of early equipment and ceramics round out the collection of Archie Baird, the owner and curator. An appointment is required to visit. Many intriguing items make up the collection at this museum which claims to be the oldest golf museum in the world. Some of the items include some long-nosed woods of Tom Morris, the putter used by Horace Rawlins when he won the first US Open Championship in 1895, the clubs that Harry Vardon used to win the 1900 US Open and a wooden putter made around 1790 by Simon Cossar of Leith, Scotland, a well known clubmaker of his day.
Visitors are welcome daily but an advance phone call is requested.
A relative new museum opened in 1990. The Dutch invented Koven which some believe to be the beginning of golf. Contact first for access. Please phone first. Of the two sites at this location, Old Marsh is the best known but harder to gain access to unless you are escorted by a member.