Patrick's Blog

First of all, we must thank everyone who entered the “Show Us Your Stonehouse Print” contest by sending us photos of where you’ve hung your Stonehouse Golf prints. It’s humbling to see our images displayed so nicely in so many homes, offices, clubhouses and yes, even bathrooms. It’s great to think about golf anywhere, isn’t it?

Our winner really impressed the judges and his story exemplified one of the things we have always believed about golf pictures from the Stonehouse Collection: looking at the photo is a great way to share the experience and re-live the experience of having played a great course.

So congratulations to Jay D. from New Palestine, Indiana on winning a framed Signature Edition print from the Stonehouse Golf Collection! Jay – we hope to get a picture of where you hang your latest addition to your own collection! Thank you for entering and for being such a great collector.

Here is Jay’s entry:

To whom it may concern:

Please see the attached photos of my Stonehouse prints.  I have a total of 15 prints which surround the inside wall of my pool room.  These are all of my top courses I have played and these make for great conversation while playing pool or when having visitors in our home.

I like Stonehouse prints because of the panoramic view of the course and you have a wonderful selection of courses.  This is the only room in our home where I can decide what pictures are hung on the wall… which means my wife likes them too.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Jay D.

Well said, Jay! A gift certificate for your framed Signature Edition print is on its way!

Want to win a FREE framed signature edition print?

Then fire up your camera and send us a photo of where you hang your Stonehouse print. Include a sentence or two about why you chose the print displayed in your photo. We’ll choose a favorite, or favorites, to win a signature edition print.

Send your submission to promotions@stonehousegolf.com. Submissions and winner(s) will be posted right here on our blog. Submissions must be received by 11:59 PM CST on June 30, 2010.

Congratulations to Stacey Miller, winner of our Desk Caddie contest!  Here’s what Stacey had to say about her caddie:

“My desk caddie is on my end table at home in our living room.  In it, I keep clips from magazines or emails on vacations I’d love to take one day (St. Andrews is our dream destination!)… and, of course there are pictures of my son and my golfer hubby. (And probably a nail clipper and a pen!)”

Stacey, we hope you make it to St. Andrews someday too. Until then, enjoy your new caddie!

Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry. Try again in May!

In honor of the spookiest holiday of the year, we are offering free shipping on our Haunted Courses Collection, which includes prints from golf courses with good ghost stories as well as all of our old world prints from England, Scotland, and Ireland. Check out our discounted prints in the Haunted Courses Collection. This offer is running now through October 31st. To take advantage of this giveaway, simply enter HAUNTED in the promo code box during checkout.

Everyone has felt the twinge of fear on the golf course, whether it be a competitor gaining a few strokes on your lead, a tough shot out of the bunker or a long putt for birdie. But we found a few frights of a different sort. Check out some of our favorite golf, ghost stories below:

The White Lady of St. Andrews:
This legendary, six-hundred-year-old course boasts many ghost stories. Probably the most popular is the story of the White Lady. A ghost-like image that often appears near the ruined abbey. The White Lady beckons those that see her to come closer, then she lifts her veil. Those that look upon her disfigured face are instantly driven insane. The legend states that the White Lady was a nun in the convent that occupied the abbey. This actually fits with the description of the apparition because many who have witnessed the ghost of the White Lady say that she has a veil over her face. It is thought that in life she became so badly disfigured that she became a nun so that she could hide away from people.
Another one of St. Andrews’s frights is Martyrs Monument, behind the 18th hole. The monument commemorates five 15th- and 16th-century Protestant martyrs who were burned at the stake there and it is said that their ghosts still roam the coarse in search of justice.

For more information on St. Andrews’s haunts, check out the Haunted Castles St. Andrews page.

The Cemetery Beneath Lincoln Park Golf Course:
The breathtaking Lincoln Park Golf Course of San Francisco offers views of the San Francisco skyline, the Golden Gate Bridge and, according to some, ghosts. A wide variety of ghosts have been seen at this public course. They may be the souls of those buried in the old Golden Gate Cemetery. This cemetery housed more than a thousand corpses and it lies directly beneath the Lincoln Park Golf Course.

The land that now makes up this lovely course, had been in use as a cemetery since the mid 1800s. In 1909, the land was re-purposed by the expanding city of San Francisco to make way for the Lincoln Park Course and several other development projects. Many of the wealthier families were able to move the remains of their deceased, but the large “potter’s field” or public cemetery for poor residents was left unmoved.

Read more about the haunting of this course and the graveyard that it covers here.

Have a happy Halloween and enjoy free shipping on the Haunted Courses Collection!