USGA Golf Museum and Library

The USGA Golf Museum is the nation’s oldest sports museum and the world’s leading institution for the collection, preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of golf history. Since 1936, the USGA Golf Museum has connected golfers, sports fans and scholars with remarkable artifacts, documents, images, and stories that chronicle golf’s rich history, creating opportunities for deeper engagement with the game we love. The Museum and Library collections are the world’s largest and most significant containing 75,000 catalogued artifacts, 750,000 photographs, 200,000 hours of footage and more than 100,000 library items in more than 25 languages that document the history of the game from its origins to the present.

Exhibits

Museum Day is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian magazine. Participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket. The USGA Golf Museum and Library invites visitors to enjoy the Pynes Putting Course free of charge on Saturday, September 17, 2022.

The Pynes Putting Course, inspired by the Himalayas putting course in St. Andrews, Scotland, is a 16,000-square-foot putting green at the USGA Golf Museum and Library. The green's undulating design offers a challenging and entertaining experience.

Visitors should allow 30 minutes to play the nine-hole course. Putters are provided by the Museum and a souvenir golf ball is included free of charge on Museum Day. Appropriate footwear is required—no high heels or heavy-soled boots will be permitted.

In addition to the activities listed above, the USGA Golf Museum and Library is pleased to invite Museum Day attendees to a screening of Playing Through, a feature-length film honoring the life and legacy of Ann Gregory, a pioneering female athlete and civil rights advocate.

In this fictional story about true events, Gregory finds the courage to be the first woman of color to enter the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship. The highly publicized match between Gregory and Babs Whatling forever changes them and the game.

The film screening will begin at 1:00 PM, and reservations are required. The event is free to attendees, and light refreshments will be available.

To RSVP for this event, please click on the following link: http://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6987166/Event-Registration

Participation in Museum Day is open to any tax-exempt or governmental museum or cultural venue on a voluntary basis. Smithsonian magazine encourages museum visitation, but is not responsible for and does not endorse the content of the participating museums and cultural venues, and does not subsidize museums that participate.