The primary focus of this site will be to document, catalog, and identify all the golf cards in existence in one place, a tall order that will surely never be completely fulfilled. Since the work of Philip Smedley and Bruce Berdock in The Price Guide of Golf Cards Parts 1 & 2 in the early-mid 1990s, I’m not aware of
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Trying to stay a bit ahead of the curve sent me digging to find a card for Class of 2022 HOFer Susie Maxwell Berning. So far this is the only card I’ve been able to locate for her and haven’t been able to figure out much about it other than the American Airlines logo and the way ‘1997 Highlights’ is
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Whether you’re a collector of fine art, precious metals, sports cards of all-time greats, or just golf cards in particular, this one has it all. Manufactured by Mitsubishi Materials, each card contains 1 gram of four 9s gold, artwork by famed sports artist Gregory Perillo, and featuring Jack Nicklaus carefully eyeing a putt, this Powell Associates/PM Cards release is stunning
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A fun little odd ball fantasy card featuring golf. I don’t really know anything about the artist or company that produced these, but had to have a copy once I saw it. A little bit about how they were distributed: https://www.fpguniverse.com/james-warhola-fantasy-art-trading-cards TCDB Checklist: https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/145842/1995-FPG-James-Warhola Size: 2 1/2 x 3 1/2″ Country of Origin: USA
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Dressed in his typically outrageous fashion, HOFer Jimmy Demaret (pictured on the left) is waiting on his fellow competitors. I’ve always found reliably determining the year of issue for unused postcards to be quite difficult, so was really happy to stumble across this in my searches for this one: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:44900/ While not the exact postcard, it is another from the
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While not a household name stateside, Roberto is the golfer with the most worldwide professional wins I’m aware of with a staggering 229. Spending his time largely on the Argentinian circuit, one might think those wins don’t count for a lot. However, when faced with the best competition in the world, he proved his mettle with 17 top-10s in Majors
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I guess I’m on an Exhibits kick right now, so bear with me. I’m not sure why, but all of Max’s Exhibit cards misspell his last name with two ‘l’s and for some reason they decided to include of a heavyweight boxer walking with a golf bag and club on this one. The postcard back with coupon dates this one
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In 1948, the Exhibit Supply Company of Chicago issued a multi-sport series of 32 “Champions” in black and white, followed by a reissue of the same 32 subjects in a green tint variety, and in 1949 a modified list with some of the subjects replaced in a blue tint variety. Full details of this set are available in Adam S.
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It’s amazing how much information has been discovered about these in the past 25 years since they were initially documented in The Price Guide to Golf Cards Part 2: NON-Tobacco Cards – Philip Smedley/Bruce Berdock in 1995. At that time, there were only 25 different ones known and they were documented as being issued in 1897, which is demonstrably false
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While it’s unclear how these were distributed, I was able to acquire several copies from a seller in San Diego a few years back. My best guess is these were distributed at a tournament in the Southern California area. This is also the only standard trading card size release by Cobra Puma that I’m aware of, with all of the
Read moreWhile it has been somewhat clarified in recent years for the major sports, there is still debate as to what constitutes a player’s Rookie Card (RC). Since golf, at times, has gone decades without a major, pack-issued release, I’m not a fan of the strict rules currently in place for other sports, like baseball. It seems silly to me to
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