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Bob Hope’s Trademark Golf Club

Bob Hope’s Trademark Golf Club (206.00.00)

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I’ve had a lifelong love affair with the game. . . . Golf has been my real racket. Entertainment has just been a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
—Bob Hope, 1997

Bob Hope never stopped being a vaudevillian. Throughout his USO tours he carried on stage a symbol of his lifelong love of golf—a golf club—using it as a vaudeville song-and-dance man would use a cane. This is the wood Hope used on the 1969 World Tour.
<em>I’ve had a lifelong love affair with the game. . . . Golf has been my real racket. Entertainment has just been a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my green fees.</em><br />—Bob Hope, 1997<br /><br />Bob Hope never stopped being a vaudevillian. Throughout his USO tours he carried on stage a symbol of his lifelong love of golf—a golf club—using it as a vaudeville song-and-dance man would use a cane. This is the wood Hope used on the 1969 World Tour.