Golfing press changes over six decades
I played in my first Open when I was 17 in 1934 and have had more than six decades of working with the golfing press. They always treated me very well and in my turn […]
Author: G.F.
Need to watch out for the cheats
Professional golf is probably squeaky clean nowadays, perhaps because there are TV cameras with zoom lenses everywhere and eagle-eyed commentators like Peter Alliss ready to pounce, but in the old days you had to keep […]
‘Butten Scheme’ attempt to produce British Open winner
At one of the tournaments in 1964 I overheard Dai Rees talking to Ken Bousefield about a millionaire management consultant called Ernest Butten, who had started a scheme to train selected young professional golfers to […]
Career interruption by second world war
My golfing career was just beginning to get going in 1939, when I turned 23. But over the next six years I played only two rounds. It is difficult now to imagine the effect which […]
Good swingers of the ball
From my beginnings in the professional game through to my peak in the 1950s, there were only three players with swings that really impressed me. The first was Bert Hodson, who was professional at Chigwell. […]
The status of being an Open Champion
From the day of my victory at Portrush, my life was changed. I had already played in the Ryder Cup, had won the odd tournament and had always been popular with the press because of […]
Max Faulkner 