• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • Articles
    • Meet the Professional
    • History and Legends
    • From the Nineteenth
    • Guest Authors
  • About
  • Acknowledgements
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies Policy
  • Contact
Golfing Herald Logo and a Silhouette of a Golfer against a beautiful sunset

Golfing Herald

Heralding the best in Golf

Golfing Herald strap line against a backdrop of Tobermory Golf Course
You are here: Home / Archives for Boer War

Boer War

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

John Ball Jr

15 January 2020 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

John Ball Jr photographed circa. 1895

Last year I attended the opening round of the Brabazon Trophy (the English Men's Open Amateur Strokeplay Championship) at Alwoodley Golf Club to watch some of the world's best amateur golfers. As the opening round unfolded, I formed the idea for an article, namely who was/is the 'Greatest Amateur Golfer'. Over the next few days, I undertook an incredibly subjective exercise … [Read more...] about John Ball Jr

Dr Frank Stableford

1 December 2018 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

A profile picture of Dr Frank Stableford, by kind permission of Wallasey Golf Club

Golfing Herald looks at the life and legacy of Dr Frank Stableford, who will forever be synonymous with the game of golf. The scoring system he devised germinated for almost four decades from conception to inception. As the late golf writer and commentator Henry Longhurst famously said: "I doubt whether any single man did more to increase the pleasure of the humble club … [Read more...] about Dr Frank Stableford

Footer

Articles by Category

Articles by Month

Explore

COPYRIGHT © 2018–2025 GOLFING HERALD

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED