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Freddie Tait – From Majuba Hill to Koodoosberg

15 January 2024 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

A photograph of Freddie Tait standing with the Amateur Championship Trophy

Like myself, many of you will have read The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever by Mark Frost. For those of you who have not, and without recourse to a spoiler alert, this book vividly and suspensefully recalls how a bet between two millionaires resulted in an epic fourball better ball match, between the paring of legendary professionals Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson … [Read more...] about Freddie Tait – From Majuba Hill to Koodoosberg

World War II – Temporary Golf Rules

26 January 2023 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

List of the temporary golf rules set against a backdrop of a photograph of the Richmond GC clubhouse and the 8th green

Today, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers is synonymous with Muirfield, one of the golf courses on The Open Championship rota. A lesser-known fact about this honourable company is that in 1744, then known as the Gentleman Golfers of Leith, they produced what is recognised as the oldest surviving rules of golf. A total of thirteen rules were agreed upon for the … [Read more...] about World War II – Temporary Golf Rules

Olympic Golf Chaos

15 March 2022 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

1908 Olympics Poster in the centre with photographs of Prince's Golf Club and Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club in the background

'Olympic Golf Chaos' is the third and final article in our 'Golf at the Olympiad' trilogy. If you have not read one or both of the first two articles of this trilogy and you wish to do so, please click on ... Tournoi Olympique de Golf, which chronicles the golf events contested at the Summer Olympics of 1900 in Paris, France when golf made its Olympic debut. Olympic … [Read more...] about Olympic Golf Chaos

Olympic Golf Marathon

12 November 2021 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

Olympic Golf Marathon Featured Image...George Lyon, Olympic Games Poster, Chandler Egan set against a backdrop of the Par 3 9th at Glen Echo Country Club

'Olympic Golf Marathon' is the second article in our 'Golf at the Olympiad' trilogy ... if you have not read the opening article of this trilogy and you wish to do so, please click on Tournoi Olympique de Golf, which chronicles the golf events contested at the Summer Olympics of 1900 in Paris, France when golf made its Olympic debut. Prologue Englishman Robert Browning was a … [Read more...] about Olympic Golf Marathon

Tournoi Olympique de Golf

1 October 2021 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

Poster advertising the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris set against a background image of a Compiègne Golf Course layout

'Tournoi Olympique de Golf' is the first article in our 'Golf at the Olympiad' trilogy and chronicles the golf events contested at the Summer Olympics of 1900 in Paris, France when golf made its Olympic debut. In an attempt to succinctly set the scene and introduce the main golfing protagonists for the narrative which follows I have extracted and adapted a passage from the … [Read more...] about Tournoi Olympique de Golf

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