Legends of the Hall

A tip of the visor to a Hall of Fame team.

Agolf course doesn’t just happen. Neither does a golf tournament. Nor does anything of true substance.

That includes a state golf hall of fame, especially one with the ambitious mission of presenting—in a manner befitting the five-star standards of The Broadmoor—the stories of 148 men and women who shaped 136 years of Colorado golf history.

Accomplishing that mission in the span of roughly two years required Hall of Fame perfomers in every area imaginable—from rainmakers to plinth-makers; from architects and artworkers to artists, archivists and engravers; from writers and designers to glaziers, framers, electricians and installers; from contractors and curators to carpenters and collectors; from donors whose largesse earns a line on a plaque to volunteers whose reward comes from seeing the awe of visitors and the emotion of Hall of Fame inductees and their descendants.

During the first of the photo shoots for this month’s feature story, photographer Barry Staver captured two behind-the-scenes Hall of Famers, Katherine Lenard and graphics specialist Karen Harolds, arranging vintage golf clubs above the Colorado golf timeline. A Washington, D.C.-based exhibit designer, Lenard counts the Smithsonian among her clients, and the care with which she, Harolds and lead exhibition designer Nancy Woelfel treated these artifacts—and the myriad trophies, photos and mementoes on display—made an indelible impression.

Lenard, Woelfel and Harolds joined Colorado Golf Hall of Fame museum chair Mark Passey at The Broadmoor every day for more than two weeks as a nonstop pageant of couriers, craftsmen, subcontractors and inquisitive guests came and went. The transformation from one day to the next day was remarkable. Not because it went so quickly, but so professionally and so perfectly.— JON RIZZI

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