In 1952, Harry Weetman and I took advantage of an all-expenses-paid trip to Miami to partner each other in an International 4-Ball Championship. But after six holes of our first practice round, Harry’s back went […]

When I was in my prime I used drivers which were much heavier and longer in the shaft than the clubs used today. I used to swing more slowly and would get most of my […]

My first experience of Bob Charles, the New Zealand left-hander, was in 1962 at the United States Air Force base at Ramstein in West Germany (in the days when the country was still partitioned). It […]

Every time Lee Trevino saw me waiting to hit off for a match with him, he would roll his trousers up to his knees before walking on to the first tee – imitating my pluss-twos. […]

My first trip to Cairo in 1949 proved to be more lively than I wanted. John Jacobs was pro at the Gezira club at the time and there were five of us in our party: […]

In the first round of the Egyptian Open, I played with John Jacobs. The fairways were nice and lush but the greens were made from very coarse-bladed grass and were very grainy. Your ball made […]

In match play tournaments it quite often happens that the finalists, if they know each other well and are evenly matched, will agree to split the prize money between them. Although they will still play […]