Cecil Leitch shares a record with Joyce Wethered for winning four British Ladies Amateur titles. A self-taught golfer, she was one of the dominant players of the 1910s and 20s. Unlike her contemporaries, she preferred to play in the wind. She changed the way women golf by hitting hard, rather than daintily, as most women…
American Champion Alexa Stirling was a childhood friend of Bobby Jones
Three-time U.S. Women’s Amateur Champion Alexa Stirling won her first organized golf tournament in 1910 against her childhood friend, the great Bobby Jones. He was seven at the time and she was 12. However, rather than giving the trophy to a girl, the organizers awarded it to Jones. In 1915 Stirling won the first of…
Gary Player boasted three Open Championships among his nine majors
After winning his first Open Championship in 1959 at Muirfield, followed by a Masters title, a PGA Championship and a U.S. Open in the 1960s, South African golf legend Gary Player faced one of the strongest Open Championship fields ever assembled at Carnoustie in 1968. Read More
Sam Snead won the first Open Championship held after World War II
When Sam Snead’s train pulled into St Andrews after World War II and he looked out his window, he thought the Old Course was abandoned. It was 1946 and many British courses had either been ravaged or put to other use during the war. Snead was by no means the crowd favorite at St Andrews,…
Peter Alliss – Gene Sarazen at Augusta
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Golf History App – Short Demo
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