2023 Iowa Collection Updates : Golf

 As we bid farewell to 2022 and welcome the new year, it a good time as any to see how the collection is doing.  Unfortunately, with a massive list of players in the collection, its not super simple to figure out where I'm at, so its going to be a bit of a slog.  

In general, there were a bunch of new additions throughout last year. In basketball, Keegan Murray was drafted and is providing a bunch of new cards each month.  Football brought us Tyler Goodson, Tyler Linderbaum, Breece Hall and Trevor Penning.  Baseball was really the big one though, with the Iowa Minor league managers and independent league team members being added.  

In general, I try to aim for the top 5 of a players collectors on TCDB as a goal.  Baseball is much harder as there are more collectors and more set collectors who by osmosis have a good chunk of a player's card by just owning all the Topps sets and other random sets.

Before getting to those massive jobs, I'll start easy with some of the smaller sports collections.  First off, Golf.

Name	ICDB Rank	Have	Total	ICDB 2021	Have	Total	Born	College	Start
Zach Johnson	4	2	80	4	2	80	Iowa City	Drake	2008
Troy Merritt	13	1	55	13	1	55	Osage		2008
Jack Fleck	0	0	2	0	0	1	Bettendorf		1939
Sean Murphy	0	0	1	0	0	3	Des Moines		1988
Tom Purtzer	139	1	13	0	0	13	Des Moines		1973
Dave Rummells	0	0	4	0	0	4	Cedar Rapids	Iowa	1981

 

Here are all the changes since last year:

• Jack Fleck added a second card to his checklist (1. /3, 2. /1)
• Sean Murphy lost two cards (to be fair, they were both Sean Murphy baseball player, so just a correction)
• I added a Tom Purtzer card, and now come in ranked at #139.  

That's all folks!  I hope they are all this easy (editor's note: they won't be)