John Fischer

Joined: Jun 15, 2021

Fischer is a retired lawyer in Cincinnati and an avid golf historian who writes on some of golf’s greats from the past, including those remembered and those forgotten. He also notes how today’s golf problems were dealt with in the past. Fischer is a past president of the Golf Heritage Society and a long-standing member of the USGA Museum and Library Committee. Having played golf since 1955, Fischer still enjoys the game, albeit from the forward tees.

A Student Of the Dirt, Sam Parks' Education Paid Off At the 1935 U.S. Open

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Dyes’ Island 17th: For A Copy, It’s Perfect

Golf

Long before Jack Nicklaus, John Daly and Bryson DeChambeau, the pipe-smoking Englishman gripped it, ripped it and won both the 1920 U.S. Open and the 1912 Open Championship.

How England's Henry Cotton Captivated a Country, Captured the 1934 British Open

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Eleven years had passed since the British Open had a home-grown champion. A confident and charismatic Cotton delivered in record-breaking fashion.

As good as Bobby Jones? Yes, she was, and then some

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Joyce Wethered, an English star in the 1920s, ‘outclassed’ Jones in an exhibition just days before he started on his 1930 Grand Slam

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On Election Day, Americans can celebrate the 28th president, who took his doctor’s advice to head outside and exercise by taking up golf at age 56, ultimately making the game a daily ritual and playing more rounds than any occupant of the Oval Office

Meet the man who competed in a World Series and the Masters

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Sammy Byrd, who played with the Babe Ruth-era Yankees in the Fall Classic, also excelled in golf, nearly winning 2 Masters titles

The mystery of 2-time U.S. Open champion Ralph Guldahl

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In the late 1930s, Guldahl, a quiet Texan, seemed to be the heir apparent to Bobby Jones, winning 3 consecutive Western Opens and a Masters to go with back-to-back U.S. Opens, but then everything changed

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Legendary Bobby Jones faced a slippery 12-footer on the 72nd hole of the 1929 U.S. Open at Winged Foot to force a playoff. Had he missed it and not won the Open, he likely would have retired, and the 1930 Grand Slam would not have happened. Will Winged Fo

Let’s see PGA Tour top this caper at Olympia Fields

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'Machine Gun’ Jack McGurn, a reputed hitman in Al Capone’s Chicago mob and a competitive golfer, missed the cut in the 1933 Western Open at Olympia Fields, site of this week's BMW Championship, but that was the least of his problems