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Pro golf from the 1930s to the millennium

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Pro golf changes over 70 years

Improvement in the lot of the professional golfer

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 9th Apr 201916th Apr 2019
  • Pro golf changes over 70 years

In 1949 I reckoned I had a good chance of achieving my main golfing ambition – winning the Open. It was being held at Royal St George’s at Sandwich and to give myself every chance […]

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The lost breed of Cockney caddie

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 9th Apr 201915th Apr 2019
  • Pro golf changes over 70 years

Although pros today are playing fine golf, the fun seems to have gone out of the game. The huge prize money they are playing for seems to be grinding them down. It is such a […]

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In the days of hickory shafts

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 9th Apr 201915th Apr 2019
  • Pro golf changes over 70 years

I am often asked about the old players I saw as a boy; what kind of men they were and how they swung. The most important point to get straight is that everybody was playing […]

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Take care shaking hands with one of the old pros

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 9th Apr 201910th Apr 2019
  • Pro golf changes over 70 years

My father, Gus Faulkner, began his career at the age of 17 in 1910, when be became 7th assistant to the great James Braid at Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey. Although he would find […]

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The curse of slow play

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 9th Apr 201910th Apr 2019
  • Pro golf changes over 70 years

I have been watching the professional game into the millennium and one of its biggest curses is slow play. People say the root cause is the much bigger prize money but I think it is […]

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Golfing press changes over six decades

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 9th Apr 201916th Apr 2019
  • Pro golf changes over 70 years

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 […]

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Need to watch out for the cheats

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 9th Apr 201910th Apr 2019
  • Pro golf changes over 70 years

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 […]

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Career interruption by second world war

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 9th Apr 201910th Apr 2019
  • Pro golf changes over 70 years

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 […]

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The 1951 open

  • Ordeal at Royal Portrush for 1951 Open triumph

    9th Apr 2019
  • The status of being an Open Champion

    9th Apr 2019

Pro golf changes over 70 years

  • Improvement in the lot of the professional golfer

    9th Apr 2019
  • The lost breed of Cockney caddie

    9th Apr 2019
  • In the days of hickory shafts

    9th Apr 2019
  • Take care shaking hands with one of the old pros

    9th Apr 2019
  • The curse of slow play

    9th Apr 2019
  • Golfing press changes over six decades

    9th Apr 2019
  • Need to watch out for the cheats

    9th Apr 2019

Key personalities of 1940s and 1950s

  • Bobby Locke – US trail blazer

    15th Apr 2019
  • The obsessive Hogan

    15th Apr 2019
  • Snead loses his cool

    15th Apr 2019
  • The genius of Christy O’Connor

    15th Apr 2019
  • Narrow escape for Dai Rees

    15th Apr 2019
  • Harry Weetman – the fascination of raw power

    15th Apr 2019

Selected pro golf observations

  • The secret behind the 1957 Ryder Cup victory

    9th Apr 2019
  • Golf can get to us all

    9th Apr 2019
  • ‘Butten Scheme’ attempt to produce British Open winner

    9th Apr 2019
  • Good swingers of the ball

    9th Apr 2019

Unusual moments in a golfing career

  • US club backs amateurs to beat me and Weetman

    15th Apr 2019
  • British courtesy unnerves US pros

    15th Apr 2019
  • Locke and I have brush with US law

    15th Apr 2019
  • John Jacobs gives me a fright

    15th Apr 2019
  • What can happen when you are gripped by nerves

    15th Apr 2019
  • Mickey Rooney impresses me – in more ways than one

    15th Apr 2019
  • Golf with Douglas Bader and Charles Newman VC

    15th Apr 2019
  • Bill Shankland sees the funny side

    15th Apr 2019
  • Scoring by memory

    15th Apr 2019
  • Call of nature in the sugar cane

    15th Apr 2019
  • Miami caddie amuses me

    15th Apr 2019
  • Sprayed drives in the tropics

    15th Apr 2019
  • Play-off with Bob Charles at Ramstein

    15th Apr 2019
  • Trevino the joker

    15th Apr 2019
  • Political unrest in Cairo

    15th Apr 2019
  • Avian golf hazard

    15th Apr 2019
  • Shall we have a split Jim?

    15th Apr 2019

Golf before WWII

  • Intimidating Archie Compston

    15th Apr 2019
  • Abe Mitchell – a long hitter with hickory

    15th Apr 2019
  • Alex Herd gives me a sharp lesson

    15th Apr 2019
  • I play with future Open Champions as 16-year old

    15th Apr 2019
  • First Open Championship

    15th Apr 2019
  • Alf Perry – the forgotten man

    15th Apr 2019
  • Sarazen the first to win all four majors

    15th Apr 2019

Tips for improving your golf

  • Stop that slice!

    15th Apr 2019
  • Simple rules for good putting

    15th Apr 2019
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