Visitors to the USGA Museum Research Center will have access to the diverse and extensive holdings, some dating back to the 1500s. There are four separate collections from which to choose from.

Library Collection

The world’s most comprehensive golf library contains more than 40,000 volumes, including biographies, histories, instructional books, Rules books, humor, and foreign language publications. Also included are magazines, personal papers, scrapbooks, oral histories, and information on every USGA championship.

Museum Collection

It contains more than 70,000 artifacts—equipment, ceramics, artwork, decorative arts, trophies, and turfgrass equipment—documenting the game’s evolution, including hundreds of USGA champions and championship moments.

Photography Collection

Containing an expansive array of color images that document USGA national championships and international competitions from the 1970s to the present, the USGA’s collection of photography also includes thousands of contemporary golf course scenes, educational images, and photographs of museum artifacts. A collection of more than 50,000 historic black-and-white photographs documents the game’s players, championships, and courses from the late 1800s to the early 1970s.

Film and Video Collection

Preserving some of golf’s earliest moving images, this collection serves as a repository for USGA championship coverage and productions, rare golf footage, and motion pictures.