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Unusual moments in a golfing career

US club backs amateurs to beat me and Weetman

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 15th Apr 201916th Apr 2019
  • Unusual moments in a golfing career

After the 1951 Ryder Cup match at Pinehurst, Harry Weetman and I were booked for a series of six exhibition matches. We fixed ourselves up with a Chevrolet and had our names painted on the […]

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British courtesy unnerves US pros

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 15th Apr 201916th Apr 2019
  • Unusual moments in a golfing career

In 1960/61 I spent several months in the US playing their winter tour. I travelled there with Eric Brown and our first tournament was the Los Angeles Open at the Rancho Club, which is opposite […]

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Locke and I have brush with US law

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 15th Apr 201929th May 2019
  • Unusual moments in a golfing career

Bobby Locke and I had just finished playing in White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia and had to get to the Piping Rock course on Long Island for a Pro-Am on the Sunday. We were […]

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John Jacobs gives me a fright

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 15th Apr 201916th Apr 2019
  • Unusual moments in a golfing career

In the semi-final of the PGA Match Play tournament at Ganton in 1953, I came up against John Jacobs. Now he is a cool customer, make no mistake. In spite of all this ‘Doctor Golf’ […]

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What can happen when you are gripped by nerves

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 15th Apr 201918th Apr 2019
  • Unusual moments in a golfing career

Even the best of us can play like amateurs when we are in the grip of nerves, and a classic example was my 1953 Matchplay Championship final with Dai Rees. Dai and I had been […]

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Mickey Rooney impresses me – in more ways than one

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 15th Apr 201918th Apr 2019
  • Unusual moments in a golfing career

At Tucson in the 1960/61 winter tour, I was drawn to play with the actor Mickey Rooney in the Pro-Am. He had starred in more than 200 films, many with Judy Garland. I met him […]

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Golf with Douglas Bader and Charles Newman VC

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 15th Apr 201916th Apr 2019
  • Unusual moments in a golfing career

My first meeting with the legless Battle of Britain fighter pilot Douglas Bader was thumbing a lift on the A3 road south of London in 1941. As an RAF Corporal and Physical Training Instructor, I […]

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Bill Shankland sees the funny side

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 15th Apr 201916th Apr 2019
  • Unusual moments in a golfing career

Bill Shankland, Tony Jacklin’s mentor, and Norman Von Nida from Australia were a couple of aggressive characters but I got on well with them and enjoyed their company. Bill was a big, tough bloke who […]

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Scoring by memory

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 15th Apr 201916th Apr 2019
  • Unusual moments in a golfing career

After the 1947 Ryder Cup match at Portland, Oregon, Dai Rees, Reg Horne and I flew to Hawaii to play in the Hawaiian Open. In the first round I was partnered by Vic Ghezzie and […]

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Call of nature in the sugar cane

  • by G.F.
  • Posted on 15th Apr 201916th Apr 2019
  • Unusual moments in a golfing career

Nowadays there are mobile toilets strategically placed on the course when tournaments are played, but pros used to be faced with a real problem if they were ever taken short in the old days. With […]

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Older posts

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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