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The collection, the most significant of its
kind in the world, contains comics dating to the 1930s that
depict Dennis the Menace, Beetle Bailey and others playing golf.
The Simpson's Mr. Burns can be seen bulldozing trees to make way
for a new course in another.
The museum said the collection reflects the periods in American
history when they were published and changing attitudes toward
the game, which is championed for its difficulty but criticized
for historically being accessible only to the ultra-wealthy,
Richie Rich's of the world.
"Beginning with the golf boom of the late 1800s, golf was
featured in just about every form of artistic and cultural
expression, including music, theater, film, art and literature,"
said Rand Jerris of the USGA.
"Collections such as this provide alternative methods of
storytelling that create important pathways for more people to
be exposed to golf."
A selection of the covers has been digitized and can be found
here https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/galleries/usga-museum-comic-book-acquisition.html#expanded.
(Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles; Editing by Shri
Navaratnam)
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