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Pete Georgiady
Isn’t it somehow appropriate that Peter Georgiady, who has
played golf since he was ten years old, lives in North Carolina "so I can play
year-round," and has condensed 20 years of fascination with club collecting and its
resultant reams into the books bearing his byline and would claim for his favorite golf
quotation P.G. Wodehouse’s maxim that "real golf is a thing of the spirit, not
of pure mechanical excellence of swing". "I haven’t gotten any better since
I started," laments Pete, "even though I play regularly." Ah, so it is in
this workaday world.Don’t for a moment think that North
Carolina is merely a place for Georgiady’s golf. No, alas, since that idyllic first
round at age 10—on a Milwaukee public course—our author has lived in six states,
attended school at Michigan State University, Miami of Ohio (where he took an MBA), and
Dundee University in Scotland, worked over 20 years in the computer business, and
contributes articles on golf and its antiquities on a regular basis to relevant journals.
How did our bespectacled author start his golf collecting? Scotland,
naturally. While doing post graduate studies in law at Dundee, he fell in with some golf
types, and discovered that all clubs weren’t necessarily made in the recent past. Au
contraire, as the French say. "I became interested in the stories behind different
clubs and I gravitated to studying, researching, and writing on historical golf
topics," he says, "…especially old golf clubs."
From an introduction by the late David Earl, editor of Golf
Journal
(Wodehouse quote from "The Woman is Only a Woman")
Pete can be reached via e-mail at pete@oldcourse.com
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Tony Harman
About the only things Tony has in common with Pete is that he
loves collecting old stick and that he got hooked on collecting golf clubs from his
numerous visits to Scotland. Tony is not recognized in any way for his
contributions to the golf world. "The best way to describe Tony is that he is a golf nut and
collector of old wooden stick", according to his long time friend Brian Ullrich.Tony's professional job, if you can
call it a profession, is to develop video games. Tony helped to bring games
like Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball, and numerous other
Nintendo titles to life. After eight years with Nintendo, Tony
continues to be involved in the video game industry and is currently the
President of RealTime Worlds.
Once Tony became committed to learning more about the history of
golf clubs and collecting wood shafted clubs seriously he was amazed of the lack of
information available to collectors. After months of searching for good information a
collector introduced Tony to Pete's books. Tony first read the of Compendium of British Club
Makers and shortly thereafter read all of Pete's books published to date. After
plowing through these books Tony sent Pete a thank you letter that started out as follows:
"I wanted to thank you for the time and effort that you put
into your wonderful books; Compendium
of British Club Makers, Collecting Antique Golf Clubs,
and Wood
Shafted Golf Club Value Guide for 1996. I begun collecting golf clubs
a decade
ago, and your books have given me a head start of knowledge that may have taken me a
lifetime to collect on my own. The background information that I gain from your books has
made collecting much more enjoyable".
A few dozen letters and e-mails letter Tony and Pete have found a
means to share their obsession: Oldcourse.com. We hope you enjoy.
Tony can be reached via e-mail at tonyharman@oldcourse.com |
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