Scorecard from Bobby Jones Golf Course: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A scorecard for the Bobby Jones Golf Course in Atlanta, Georgia. The scorecard folds into thirds, forming a small pamphlet. It is printed on white paper with color images, illustrations, and black text. On the front panel of the scorecard is the name of the course, manager’s name and telephone number printed near the top, in a white box with black text that reads [CITY OF ATLANTA / PARKS & RECREATION DEPT. / BOBBY JONES / golf course / Billy Wilson, Professional / Phone CE. 3-9172] against an image of a golf green, trees, lake, and a sand trap. The back two panels of the scorecard pamphlet is a yellow, illustrated map of the golf course. The left interior panel has two lists of rules with the titles, [LOCAL RULES] and [GOLF RULES AND ETIQUETTE]. The center and right interior panels of the pamphlet is the scorecard laid out in a grid. The top row of the grid identifies the hole numbers, the yards are listed across the second row, par across the third row, and strokes across the fourth row. Handicap and net scores are column headers of the left two columns and the bottom two rows are to record won and lost. There are no marks on the front, back or interior pages of the scorecard.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1956
• Distributed by: Bobby Jones Golf Course, American, founded 1932
• Subject of: City of Atlanta Department of Parks & Recreation, American, founded 1858
• Subject of: Billy Wilson, British
• Type: cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 5 1/8 × 8 3/4 in. (13 × 22.2 cm)
• Place used: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Golf
• Topic: Law
• Topic: Recreation
• Topic: Segregation
• Topic: Sports
• Object number: 2016.34.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Carl Seldon
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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