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Joyce Wethered – From Piccadilly to Pebble Beach

17 May 2024 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

Featured Image ... Pictures of Joyce Wethered with Bobby Jones and with Sam Parks and from the match at Brook-Lea Country Club, all set against a background image of Pebble Beach.

Thousands of articles and column inches have been written and continue to be written about Joyce Wethered, almost exclusively concentrating on her championship years (1920-1929). This article, Joyce Wethered - From Piccadilly to Pebble Beach, complements the journalistic critical mass by primarily focusing on her post-championship years (1930-1935), particularly her … [Read more...] about Joyce Wethered – From Piccadilly to Pebble Beach

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

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

Ronnie White – One Of The Best Ever?

3 September 2020 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

From L to R...Ronnie White (GB), Joe Carr (GB), Frank Stranahan (USA) and William Campbell (USA) congratulate each other at the 36th hole after their foursomes match finished A/S

Whilst researching for this article for our series 'History and Legends of Golf' I uncovered several quotes, extracts and statements including... "The most professional-looking amateur I have ever seen"...an extract from the book 'Peter Alliss' Golf Heroes' The Americans nicknamed him 'One Height' such was the consistency of his ball-striking, resulting in all of his shots … [Read more...] about Ronnie White – One Of The Best Ever?

Horace Hutchinson

10 February 2020 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

Horace Hutchinson circa. 1895 against a backdrop of the Westward Ho! Golf Links

I am not a Golf Historian and quite rightly leave that specialism to experts such as the Society of Golf Historians, Stephen Proctor, Alistair Noakes, Bill Williams and the British Golf Museum. However, from a very young age, I have always been interested in the 'History and Legends of Golf', primarily fuelling this interest by reading umpteen golfing books and magazines. … [Read more...] about Horace Hutchinson

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