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GOLFIKA
The European Association of Golf Historians & Collectors |
Main objectives are:
- To strengthen the relationship between all golf historians and collectors.
- To recover from oblivion, list, study, preserve, highlight all documents and items related to the game of golf.
- Share as broadly as possible the information related to the history of golf, mainly on the Continent. A newsletter is regularly published and Golfika Magazine is now issued twice a year.
- Maintain and encourage relationship between any organisation related to golf heritage.
Social life is not forgotten and we shall organise meetings, members’ exchange fairs and, of course, having golf in common.
Board Members (2008-2009) Christoph Meister, President; Jean-Bernard Kazmierczak, Vice-President; Xavier de Taffin, Vice- President; Leiff Einarsonn, Honorary Secretary; Georges Jeanneau, Honorary Tresurer.
A bit of history.
The Golfika web-site started ten years ago, in 1997 as the personal web-site of J-B Kazmierczak. It became soon the link between all golf collectors and historians, initially in France but then all around the world, focusing on the European Continent.
It established a strong relationship between a group of friends, sharing information, ideas and items related to Continental golf, creating the first virtual association of golf historians and collectors in Europe.
Of course, this was not the first association of golf collectors. In 1970, in the USA, was created the GCS - Golf Collector Society. A group of 27 impassioned persons decided to form the first society of golf collectors and historians. A few years later, UK followed, inaugurating the BGCS - British Golf Collector Society.
Today these two societies are well established. Thirty years later, the first counts 1200 members for 27 millions golfers and the second 520 for 3.8 millions.
In France, there were a few trials, in the past, to create such an association; all failed. Taking for base a ratio close to what is observed in the United States or in UK, we can expect about thirty or forty possible members. It is certainly too few to be successful in forming a living group.
A similar situation should be expected in all the other countries of Continental Europe. As several, among us, established friendly contacts with collectors in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark or Switzerland, it appeared that a project federating these passions could be the right way to take.
So, after many years of virtual relationship, the core group of friends on the Continent decided to create a formal association. From end 2005 until now, June 2006, we exchanged a lot of e-mails, met a lot of people, received many suggestions, sent several "Information Letters" to all supporters of our project. This association has been now created. Following a suggestion from John Hanna (Captain of the BGCS) we decided to name it:
also called Association Européenne des Historiens & Collectionneurs de Golf
Mrs Lally Segard is our Honorary President; Messrs Jean-Bernard Kazmierczak as President, Christoph Meister as International Vice-President, Xavier de Taffin, Vice-President; Henri Jakubowicz, Treasurer and Georges Jeanneau, Secretary constituted the first Board.
We will work closely to the British Golf Collector Society and the American one. Both already announced our move in their magazine. The Deutches Golf Archiv (you will be commemorating the 100 years of the German Golf Federation next year) is strongly supporting our project, as well as The Dutch “Early Golf Foundation” (Dr J. Ayolt Brongers) and the Golf Museum from Denmark (Erik Halling). The association received a strong support from many prominent international figures which is impossible to list here. Let us just thanks Lally Segard (viscountess de Saint Sauveur), who gave us the energy to complete our project and who kindly accepted to take the Honorary Presidency.
The Inaugural General Meeting of our society was held on October 3rd at the Chantilly Golf Club close to Paris.
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