"Ralph Livingston III is a Commercial Advertising Photographer in Grand Rapids, MI. Livingston started playing pre-1935 Hickory golf clubs ten years ago and has played them exclusively for eight years. He finished last year as an 8 handicap with Hickories. He collects and plays Tom Stewart of St. Andrews golf clubs to experience early 20th century golf and is in the process of writing a book on Stewart. Livingston also collects and plays Robert White of St. Andrews golf clubs to experience 19th century golf.
As is evident in his Feature Interview, he enjoys researching hickory era 'play' through the use of the clubs and a collection of books from the era. Presently, Livingston is trying to gain the 'big picture' understanding of what golf was like by combining research into the implements, the balls, golf course architecture and agronomy. Livingston established an excellent web site www.hickorygolf.com as a place for people to find information about playing Hickory golf. Finally, he has furnished clubs for the play scenes in 'The Legend of Bagger Vance' and now for a new movie in production 'The Greatest Game Ever Played' from the book by Mark Frost.
He is a member at The Kingsley Club in northern Michigan."
An excerpt from GolfClubAtlas.com, April, 2004.
Read the interview:
http://www.golfclubatlas.com/interviewlivingston.html
As is evident in his Feature Interview, he enjoys researching hickory era 'play' through the use of the clubs and a collection of books from the era. Presently, Livingston is trying to gain the 'big picture' understanding of what golf was like by combining research into the implements, the balls, golf course architecture and agronomy. Livingston established an excellent web site www.hickorygolf.com as a place for people to find information about playing Hickory golf. Finally, he has furnished clubs for the play scenes in 'The Legend of Bagger Vance' and now for a new movie in production 'The Greatest Game Ever Played' from the book by Mark Frost.
He is a member at The Kingsley Club in northern Michigan."
An excerpt from GolfClubAtlas.com, April, 2004.
Read the interview:
http://www.golfclubatlas.com/interviewlivingston.html
"Some guys drive vintage cars, some like working with antique tools or firing black powder muskets. Ralph Livingston III plays golf at every opportunity with 80-year-old, wood-shafted golf clubs. The Grand Rapids professional photographer and principle of Livingston Photography, is more than just an armchair devotee of golf history and old golf equipment. He relishes playing time-honored antique clubs over historic old courses, and newer ones, too.
Livingston stopped using modern golf clubs five or six years ago and has played exclusively with antique clubs ever since. Over that time his handicap has dropped from nine to five, in large part because the balance of the clubs improved his swing tempo. He's now back around nine though, because of a lack of practice. Last May he won the Scottish Hickory Championship in Gullane, east of Edinburgh, and placed eighth in the National Hickory Championship in West Virginia. This year, in addition to those two events, he'll play in a major tournament in Dallas in the spring and in the Golf Collectors Society Championship, the wood-shaft tournament with the largest starting field, where he finished second in 1999, as well as five or six smaller events."
An excerpt from Pete Georgiady for WebGolfer.com
For the complete article, please click below:
http://www.webgolfer.com/april00/hickories.html
Livingston stopped using modern golf clubs five or six years ago and has played exclusively with antique clubs ever since. Over that time his handicap has dropped from nine to five, in large part because the balance of the clubs improved his swing tempo. He's now back around nine though, because of a lack of practice. Last May he won the Scottish Hickory Championship in Gullane, east of Edinburgh, and placed eighth in the National Hickory Championship in West Virginia. This year, in addition to those two events, he'll play in a major tournament in Dallas in the spring and in the Golf Collectors Society Championship, the wood-shaft tournament with the largest starting field, where he finished second in 1999, as well as five or six smaller events."
An excerpt from Pete Georgiady for WebGolfer.com
For the complete article, please click below:
http://www.webgolfer.com/april00/hickories.html