Dr. Tennent Ronalds putting on golf course: Leon County, Florida (ca. 1907)

Dr. Ronalds developed Live Oak as Leon County's first hunting plantation and built a golf course. He kept a flock of sheep to keep the greens and fairways trim.

John Hamilton Gillespie poses under a large palmetto: Sarasota, Florida (1901)

An early promoter of golf, Gillespie built one of the first golf courses in Florida. In May 1886, he cleared a woods on Main Street and laid out a long fairway. By 1905 there was a complete 9 hole course, plus a clubhouse, on a 110 acre tract.

Rosie the elephant being used as a golf tee: Miami Beach, Florida (1927)

Developer and entrepreneur Carl Graham Fisher used the elephant Rosie to promote Miami Beach during the Florida land boom of the 1920s.

Women's golf champion Maureen Orcutt: Jacksonville, Florida

Maureen Orcutt was one of the nation's outstanding golfers for almost fifty years and one of the first women sportswriters in the US. Orcutt was 99 when she died in January of 2007.

Race car driver Sig Haugdahl with clubs he had specially made: Jacksonville, Florida (1922)

Jackie Gleason and Arnold Palmer at a golf match: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (196-?)

Babe Ruth and the former governor of New York, Al Smith, playing a round of golf at the Miami Biltmore: Coral Gables, Florida (1930)

Nancy Lopez at the Centel Classic : Tallahassee, Florida (1991)

In 1987, Nancy Lopez was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame (located in St. Augustine, Florida).

Bill Glasson acknowledges applause : Tallahassee, Florida (1988)

Bill Glasson, from Fresno, California, acknowledges applause from the crowd on the 18th green Sunday after sinking a birdie putt and taking the $90,000 winner's share of the $500,000 Centel Classic golf tournament.

Glasson finished with a 16-under-par, 272 total for the four rounds, two strokes ahead of his next challenger.