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AL WILSON
AL WILSON Yale Golf Team Coach 1954-70 Interview on February 19, 2006 with his son, Al Wilson Interview (22 mins) Al Wilson was a tool and dye maker by trade, but he served as the freshman soccer coach at Yale from 1950 to 1960. In 1954, when Joe Sullivan, the golf team coach, left to become […]
KEN VENTURI
KEN VENTURI 1964 US Open champion and former CBS golf analyst Interviewed on March 8, 2005 [conducted by telephone by John Godley] Interview (8 mins) Ken Venturi was born and raised in California where he was a leading amateur from 1940-50. He worked as a car salesman for Ed Lowery (who had been Francis Ouimet’s caddie when […]
NED VARE
NED VARE Captain of 1956 Golf Team Interviewed on November 9, 2004 Interview: part one (1 hr 5 mins) | part two (57 mins) Ned Vare learned to play golf from his father at the Philadelphia Golf Club. His mother, Glenna Collett Vare, was the US woman amateur champion six times through 1920-30’s. He played for an undefeated prep […]
JESS SWEETSER
JESS SWEETSER Interviewed by David Paterson in 1989 Interview (48 mins) Jess Sweetser attended Exeter where he was on the track team, and he graduated from in Yale 1923. He won the National Intercollegiate Championship in 1920 (USGA) and placed second in 1921. Subsequently, in 1922 he won the US Amateur and played on the Walker […]
JOE SULLIVAN
JOE SULLIVAN Yale Golf Team Coach, 1937-55 Interview on February 12, 2005 with members of the Sullivan family [his twin brothers, two sons and two daughters] Interview (1 hr 38 mins) When Joe Sullivan was age 20 in 1929, he was an assistant pro at Waterbury Country Club, and the youngest of 13 siblings, the twins […]
DAN SMITH
DAN SMITH Longtime member of the Yale Golf Course Interviewed on October 19, 2004 Interview (48 mins) Dan Smith learned to play golf as a caddy in 1930’s at Brooklawn. Typically, he would earn 75 cents for 18 holes. He caddied for Julius Boros and watched John D. Rockefeller play and give 5-cent tips. Smith went […]
JOHN SCHLEICHER
JOHN SCHLEICHER First President of the Eli Club and first Yale Golf Club champion Interviewed on October 5, 2004 Interview (53 mins) John Schleicher was born and raised in New Haven and graduated from Colorado College in 1950 where he learned to play golf. He returned to N.H. and began caddying at the Yale golf course […]
ROGER G. RULEWICH
ROGER G. RULEWICH Golf course architect and designer of the recent bunker repair and restoration project Interviewed on March 15, 2005 Interview (43 mins) Mr. Rulewich arrived at Yale as a student in 1954 having never before played golf. After being challenged by his roommates to play, he became “hooked on the game” and found the […]
ESTHER RESNIK
ESTHER RESNIK Interviewed on November 11, 2004 [conducted by telephone by John Godley] Interview (7 mins) Mrs. Resnik is the second wife of Burt Resnik (class of 1934), who played on the golf teams that won the national USGA intercollegiate championships in 1931, 1932, and 1933. Before his death, Mr. Resnik gave money so that new short […]
SCOTT RAMSAY
SCOTT RAMSAY Course superintendent Interviewed on September 7, 2004 Interview (44 mins) Scott Ramsay arrived at Yale in the fall of 2003 from the Orchards Golf Club in South Hadley, MA (which he was preparing as the site for the 2004 USGA Woman’s Open) with 20 years experience as a superintendent. Scott’s father was in the […]