He emigrated in 1905 and joined Jim Campbell from North Berwick, the pro at Mount Airy Golf Club, Philadelphia. In 1906 Brownlee was appointed pro at Fort Smith CC, one of only two golf clubs in Arkansas. Brownlee was also associated with Lakeview Country Club, Belle Isle Lake, Oklahoma City. In 1908 he laid out the nine-hole-course at Muskogee C.C, Oklahoma with sand greens and recommended Bill Nichols from North Berwick as their first pro. In 1909, Brownlee recommended Arthur Kendall from North Berwick as the pro at Fort Smith. As teenagers, Leslie, Arthur and Jim Campbell lived next to each other in the High Street, North Berwick.

Campbell emigrated to the USA in 1896 and was appointed pro at Baltimore G.C in Maryland. He moved to a number of clubs including Torresdale G.C. (PA) where he laid out the nine-hole course, and then to Belmont Golf Association which became Aronimink G.C, in Philadelphia (PA) 1899-01. He was the first pro at Wilmington C.C in 1901, and then to Mount Airy, Philadelphia (PA) 1903-07.

In 1905 he was joined by Leslie Brownlee from North Berwick as his assistant at Mount Airy. In 1906, Brownlee was appointed pro at Fort Smith C.C. in Arkansas. Mount Airy closed in 1907 and many of the members transferred to Whitemarsh Valley C.C and in 1908 Campbell joined them as their pro. Jim Campbell won the Philadelphia Open in 1905 and 1907 and was runner-up in 1908. He played in four US Opens between 1902 and 1910.

His wife Mary Jane Wynne was born in Edgemont PA, and they had a son James 'George' Campbell in 1899. In 1912, Jim Campbell moved to a new course being constructed at Mt. Tom Country Club, Holyoke, Massachusetts by designer Donald Ross. Jim struck up a friendship with Donald Ross, a fellow Scot from Dornoch who was chairman of the green committee at Mt Tom for several years.

In 1916, Jim Campbell wintered at Fruitland Park Golf Club in Florida and in the spring of that year he moved to the Country Club of Mobile, Spring Hill, Alabama. When he arrived there was only a caddy shack and a dressing room, but within two years a new clubhouse was constructed and the membership increased. Jim was golf instructor with the club for nine years before tragedy struck on 29th December 1925 when Jim and his wife Mary Jane perished in a fire which destroyed the Mobile clubhouse.

It was reported in the Mobile Daily Register that the fire broke out shortly after 3am and moved so quickly through the building the Campbell's were trapped in their apartment on the third floor. Their bodies were discovered wrapped in each others arms and they were buried together in Pine Crest Cemetery on 4th January 1926.

In May 1923 he sailed for America where his contact was George Sayers at Merion Cricket Club, (PA). According to his emigration papers Clarke intended to stay for five months but remained in the USA for over ten years.

Fred McLeod who was at school with Ferguson, travelled north from Columbia Country Club to play in the Open tournament. This was the first time they had been together for over ten years. McLeod won the tournament from a strong field which included Tom McNamara, Jim Barnes and a young Walter Hagen. Alex Smith shot 71, to beat Ferguson's course record by one stroke.

Forrester sailed to America from Glasgow on the S.S. Columbia and arrived in New York on 8th March 1920. His contact was Carl H. Anderson manager of the golf department of Thomas E. Wilson & Co, in the Emporia building at 25 West, 45th Street, New York, (later Wilson Sports Goods Co). Anderson was born in 1889 at Brockton, Mass. and was club champion of the Brockton Country Club at the age of fifteen. He was schoolboy champion of greater Boston in 1908 and turned pro in 1909. It is not known if Forrester was employed at Wilson's store but during the winter he joined Carl H. Anderson in Florida and they played in the Palm Beach Golf Club professional tournament. Forrester returned north in the spring and was appointed pro at Meadow Brook Golf Club, in New Jersey in 1921.

Later he moved to Hollywood NJ (1923-25); then to Baltusrol NJ (1926-28); Oradell NJ (1929); and Hackensack NJ (1930-34). He played in the US Open from 1921-1930 with his best finish being fourth place in 1923.

He qualified for the US PGA Championship in 1921 (defeated by Walter Hagen in the first round), also 1923 and 1924. Sandy-haired Jack Forrester was the most successful pro in New Jersey from 1926 until 1936. He won the Mid-South Open in 1928 and the New Jersey State Pro/AM on several occasions.

In 1923, David Campbell was appointed assistant to Jack Forrester at Hollywood Golf Club (NJ). Davie was a member of the famous golfing family from Musselburgh. His brothers Willie and Alex Campbell emigrated before Davie was born and they never met their younger brother until he arrived in America. Davie was assistant pro at Gleneagles before he joined Jack Forrester at Deal.

For three years he was assistant to Norman Grant from North Berwick at Cannes Golf Club in France before being appointed head pro at Lucerne Golf Club in Switzerland in 1929. He remained there for eight years and was Swiss Professional Champion in 1933, runner-up twice and also winner of the Swiss Close championship. His pupils were both winner and runner-up in the Swiss Amateur in 1936-37.

In August 1937, Goldsmith was appointed pro at the Royal Cape Club in South Africa after being recommended for the position by Henry Cotton and Percy Alliss. Twenty candidates applied for the job and 'Jock' Goldsmith as he was known, worked on the Wynberg course for the remainder of his career.

Goldsmith played against South African Bobby Locke on several occasions, and in 1939 they contested the final of the matchplay Sunlight Purse, a prestigious professional tournament which Locke won. Goldsmith was playing well that year and had his best opportunity to win the SA Open Championship but had to withdraw after badly cutting his hand on a glass door. WW2 then intervened and Jock Goldsmith served in the Desert and Italian campaigns. During the conflict he met up with Bobby Locke in Cairo, he was flying Liberator bombers between Egypt and Italy. After the war Locke won the British Open Championship four times.

The tradition at Ben Sayers & Son, was for the apprentices on completion of their five years training, to be offered a position as assistant to former Sayers club makers and contacts around the world. Following a request by Maynard Goldsmith for an assistant in South Africa, Allan McLachlan was offered the position and sailed for Cape Town.

Allan McLachlan born 9th December 1914, in Abbey Road, North Berwick, son of Alexander McLachlan, gardener at the Marine Hotel, and his wife Mary Ann Munro. His father later worked on the Abbey Farm and served in the Royal Air Force during WW1. Allan McLachlan apprenticed as a club maker with Ben Sayers & Son in their new workshop in Forth Street. In an interview in the South Africa Golf magazine Allan said, "That was in the days of hickory shafts and we worked from 8am - 6pm and still found time for a round of golf in the evening. I got my handicap down to six, then four. When I was 21 years old I was put in the professional's shop beside the first tee on the West Links, demonstrating Sayers clubs and selling to the customers".

Davie Grant was employed as a general labourer and lived with his family at 11, Forth Street. In 1881 Grant was eking a living labouring in the winter at North Berwick and playing in professional golf tournaments around the country. In 1885 he was a professional at Musselburgh and by 1888 was back at North Berwick teaching on the West Links. During this period he started a golf ball making business and by 1890 was employing his brother-in-law Willie Thomson, making golf balls in his house in Forth Street.

Grant was a small man with fair hair and a moustache that looked white from a distance. He laid out the golf course at Silloth in 1892, and formed a formidable partnership with Ben Sayers in fourball matches. On one occasion they defeated Andrew and Hugh Kirkaldy in a well publicised money match. Grant played in the Open Championship from 1879-1894, his best finish was sixth place in 1888. That year he was appointed the first professional at the Dinard Club near Ille-et-Vilaine in France. He also played for Scotland in the professional international matches and although he preferred to describe himself as a ball maker, it was in teaching the game that his talent was recognised.

Grant was a pioneer of the one hour lesson rather than the traditional method of teaching while playing a round with the pupil. He took a keen interest in ladies' golf and taught the Orr sisters from North Berwick to play the game. In 1897 the Ladies' Championship in it's fifth year came to Scotland for the first time and was played at Gullane. Two of the Misses Orr sisters contested the final with a third sister reaching the quarter finals. Grant caddied for Edith C. Orr throughout the competition which attracted criticism from the LGU, and she was the ultimate winner 4 & 3.

Harry Gullane won the first professional golf tournament in the Philadelphia area, played in 1898 at the Huntingdon Valley Country Club. There were ten entries and the club provided a free lunch for the contestants. They played the nine-hole course four times each day to make it a 72-hole tournament. Harry Gullane had the winning score of 319 while Willie Anderson finished twelve strokes back in second place and Jim Campbell completed the North Berwick trio, finishing third. The purse totalled $150 and the winner received $100.

Gullane was the first pro to be appointed to the nine-hole St David's Golf Club in Wayne, PA. He supervised the extension of that course to 18 holes which was completed in April 1899. Also that year Gullane laid out a nine-hole course at West Chester Golf and Country Club, Pennsylvania. In 1899 Gullane set a new course record at Cape May G.C. (NJ) and in 1900 at Catasauqua G.C (PA).

His best finish in the US Open Championship was seventh place at Baltimore Country Club in 1899 when he received $50. The day before the championship they held a driving contest and Harry finished second with a drive of 264 yards 2 feet 9inches. Willie Hoare had the winning drive which was 269 yards 7 feet 6 inches. Those were big drives as the gutta-percha ball was still in use at that time. In 1900 Harry Gullane was pro at the Philadelphia Cricket Club (Chestnut Hill, PA). In April that year he partnered Willie Thomson of the Huntingdon Valley Country Club in an exhibition match against Harry Vardon at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. It was reported in the New York Times that Gullane outdrove Vardon by 10 to 15 yards. Harry Gullane entered the 1900 US Open from Pittsburgh where he laid out the course for Pittsburgh Golf Club (PA).

In 1901, Gullane returned to North Berwick permanently and five years later he married a local girl and was back giving golf lesson on the West Links. In 1907 they lived in a row of cottages at 5, Law Road and following a domestic argument Gullane struck his wife to the floor. Thinking he had killed her, Harry climbed Berwick Law and in a state of remorse threw himself off the quarry, plunging 70 feet to his death. He was 32 years old and his wife Margaret survived the tragedy.

Jimmy travelled to Philadelphia to take up the position of assistant pro to George Sayers (son of Ben Sayers) at Merion Golf and Cricket Club, PA. In 1916, Gullane finished eighth in the Philadelphia Open and the following year he was appointed pro at Sunnybrook G.C, Flourtown, PA. In the final years of WW1 Jimmy served with the US Army and received his US citizenship. During this period he struck up a friendship with former PGA and US Open champion Jim Barnes, and for several seasons from 1915 they wintered together at Palma Ceia C.C, Tampa in Florida. Gullane followed Jim Barnes to Colorado Springs and was appointed head pro at Broadmoor Golf Club when Barnes left in 1919. Gullane resided in the YMCA for the first two years and when he arrived at Broadmoor there were only nine holes and he assisted with the course extension to eighteen holes (East Course), which was completed in late 1919. Gullane entered the 1926 US Open championship from Broadmoor and remained with the club until 1927. Jimmy Thomson, the son of Wilfred Thomson from North Berwick took over at Broadmoor Golf Club in 1930.

Bob and his brothers John and George were licensed caddies on the West Links. Bob was granted his professional ticket in July 1894, John in 1893 and George in 1919. Bob Johnstone emigrated to America in 1900 and travelled to California where he laid out the nine-hole course at Presidio Golf Club in San Francisco. Bob was pro at Presidio for five years and extended the course to eighteen holes in 1910.

In 1905 he was appointed pro at San Francisco Golf Club where he experienced problems with the caddies as he later wrote. 'One time we had a strike and the caddies made life a misery for us all. One day a bunch of them shouted vile things at us until I could take it no longer, so armed with a golf club I chased them away'.

Bob Johnstone won the Pacific Northwest Championship four consecutive years from 1901-1904. In 1907, he laid out the course at Seattle Golf Club and became their first professional. Throughout the 1920s there was no better-known golfer in the Pacific Northwest than Robert Johnstone. He went on to win the Northwest Open a record eight times.

Johnstone's former class mate at North Berwick, George Turnbull (listed below) was also a golf pro and in 1910 he was appointed the first pro at Waverley Country Club in Portland, WA. For the next eight years the tournaments in the Northwest were contested between Turnbull, Johnstone and Jim Barnes pro at Tacoma G.C. In 1918, the Pacific Northwest Championship finished in a tie between Turnbull and Johnstone and following an 18 hole play-off they could not be seperated, both scoring 74. The next day another head to head was arranged, this time Turnbull won and Johnstone had to settle for beating Turnbull in the final of the North and South tournament.

In 1917, Bob Johnstone laid out a nine-hole course on Mercer Island which at that time was only the sixth course in the Seattle area. In 1919, he laid out the course at Rainier Golf and Country Club and the Inglewood Golf Club at Kenmore with A. Vernon Macan. In 1930 Bob Johnstone and Frank Jones laid out the public links in Jackson Park, Seattle.

Arthur Kendall return to Scotland in 1912 to marry Helen Smith and they set up home at 82, Waldron Road, Fort Smith. The following year Helen returned to Glasgow to give birth to their first child, Margaret and in March 1914 mother and daughter sailed back to America in style on the RMS Lusitania.

Arthur's father had a plumber's business with a shop in Quality Street, North Berwick. His older brother James fought in the Boer War and along with Walter Gilholm they were given a heroes welcome on their safe return to North Berwick in August 1902. The two gallant troopers of the Scottish Horse were greeted at the railway station by a huge crowd and the pipe band headed a procession through the streets.

In 1907, Kenny emigrated to the USA, sailing from Glasgow on the S.S. Caledonia arriving in New York on 19th March. His contact in America was Bill Stewart from the Park and Country Club at Buffalo in New York State where Dan was appointed golf pro. He was also pro at the Meadow Club which used the public park in Buffalo. Kenny won the Canadian Open in 1910 at Lambton Golf and Country Club, Toronto with a winning score of 303. George S Lyon was second on 307 and Perry Barrett was third with 309. A year later, he joined the newly formed North Toronto Golf Club and defended his Open title at Royal Ottawa when twenty professionals established the Canadian Professional Golfers' Association. In the 1910 census Dan Kenny was a boarder living at Glen Grove, York South, North Toronto. In 1912, Kenny moved to Lake Rousseau (Monteith House) in the Muskoka Lakes district, north of Toronto, where he was the first professional.

He played in the US Open in 1912 (which he lead after the first round), again in 1914 and 1915, when he entered from Hamilton Golf and Country Club, Ltd. in Hamilton, Ontario. Willie Anderson's brother Tom Anderson Jr. also played in the 1912 US Open but it was his flamboyant style of clothes that caught the attention of the media and impressed a young Walter Hagen who would later emulate Anderson's style. At the 1915 US Open Dan Kenny was reunited with his North Berwick class mate Fred McLeod and the field also included Ben Sayers and his son George Sayers. Kenny was pro at Hamilton Country Club, Olean (NY) 1915-20. His wife Francis remained in Scotland and was living at 49 Millburn Street, Kirkcudbright.

In 1919 and 1920 Dan Kenny wintered at Baton Rouge Country Club in Louisiana. The State Times reported that Daniel Kenny and Scotty Robson who laid out the course in 1916 were playing Baton Rouge and that Daniel Kenny would be giving golf lessons at the club until March. In 1922, Kenny was based at Sylvania C.C, Toledo, Ohio where his relation James W. Kenny was head pro (1923-37). Dan qualified for the US PGA championship at Oakmont in 1922 and James Kenny quailfied for the US PGA in 1930. James also played in the US Open championship at Scioto C.C in 1926 and that year the Superintendents Association of America was founded at Sylvania C.C.

Billy Keppie was a caddie on the West Links before moving to Denmark in 1924, aged 19 years. He worked as a golf instructor on the newly established golf training centres in Denmark, travelling from place to place giving lessons in the Jutland area. He also played in competitions with fellow Scot James Ross, pro at Copenhagen G.C.

In the summer months Keppie worked at the nine-hole course on Fano Island which he extended to eighteen holes in 1930. Fano Golf Links is the oldest course in Denmark, and the only links course in the country. Billy Keppie was also affiliated to Odense Golfklub (birthplace of author and poet Hans Christian Andersen). It was at Odense on the Island of Funen where Billy met his wife Edel Esbensen and they had two daughters.

In 1911, Peter Lees was persuaded to join Mid-Surrey Golf Club in Richmond. The pro at Mid-Surrey was former Open Champion J.H. Taylor and when Peter Lees arrived at the club they introduced several grass bunkers to break up the flat appearance of the course. This was so successful that the grass bunkers were enlarged to create the 'humps and hollows' which looked so natural. Lees supervised over a hundred labourers, employed through the night using flare lights to move the soil. This was the making of Peter Lees's reputation and they came from courses all over the country to see how the work was carried out.

In 1912, the Duke of Saxe Coburg invited Lees to layout the Oberhof Golf Course in Germany and to advise them on seeding and planting turf. In 1914, Peter emigrated to America on the instigation of course architect Charles B. Macdonald who was laying out a new course at Lido on Long Island. He employed Lees to oversee the seeding and the early development of the course. The following year Peter returned to Britain to escort his wife Isabella Peacock, (originally from Dirleton), and their four daughters to their new home at Lynbrook on Long Island.

The Lido course completed in 1916 was such a complex project being built on swamp land, that its success ushered in a new era in course construction and enhanced Lees standing even further. He wrote articles in Golf Illustrated and The American Golfer, and wrote the book 'Care Of The Green' published in 1918.

Peter Lees supervised the extension of the course at Jamaica Country Club on Long Island to eighteen holes during the winter of 1918. At that time the club was looking forward to the return of their pro Jimmy Lindsay after his service with the Canadian Forces in WW1. Lindsay (below) and Lees grew up in Gullane. In 1919, Peter Lees was involved in the layout at St Albans Country Club (LI) where Babe Ruth was a member. The US Military commandeered the golf course during WW2 and constructed a Naval Hospital on the land.

Peter revised courses at Green Meadow, NY (1917), Ives Hill CC at Watertown, NY, Garden City, Somerset Hills, Belleclair NY, Glen Ridge, NJ, Mountain Ridge, NJ, and extended the nine-hole course at The Homestead, Hot Springs, VA in 1919. He laid out four putting greens at Apawamis Club in 1920 and also that year he completed the Hempstead course near his home on Long Island. Peter Lees was better known as a constructer of courses for such architects as Charles B. Macdonald, Albert Tillinghast and surveyor Seth Rayner.

It was while he was visiting the Asheville course in Buncombe, North Carolina that he suddenly collapsed and died on 11th May 1923, aged 54 years. Peter W. Lees is buried in Rockville Cemetery in Lynbrook, Long Island, NY. Golf Illustrated wrote in 1923 ' Peter Lees was recognised as one of the greatest experts on green building in the country'.

JIMMY LINDSAY

GEORGE LIVINGSTONE (1879-1968)

Two years later he returned to North Berwick to escort his wife and three daughters to their new home in Nashville. The club later adopted the name Belle Meade Country Club where Livingstone was the professional for 35 years. The George Livingstone trophy (1954) continues to be played for at Belle Meade Country Club. In 1920, he was joined by his younger brother Henry Livinstone (1889-1978) who like George was a joiner to trade. Henry was appointed pro at Inglewood G.C. Nashville in 1924. Their father, James Livingstone, a line fisherman lived at 15 Forth Street, North Berwick. George Livingstone died December 1968 in Nashville

JIMMY LIVINGSTONE (1884-1979)

His wife Marjorie and five children joined him in 1923 and they lived in Austin Place in Atlanta. Jimmy's standing in the community was such that the local authority renamed the street 'Livingstone Place'. Jimmy Livingstone died September 1979, aged 95 years and is buried in Decatur Cemetery. In the 1980s as Atlanta expanded more land was required and the Ingleside golf course was sold to accommodate a new city transit line. His son John Livingstone was also a professional golfer and in 1947 he helped to develop the course at the Standard Town and Country Club at Brookhaven GA where he was head pro for nineteen years.

ARNAUD MASSY Factfile

CATRIONA MATTHEW Factfile

ROBERT MILLAR (1898-1968)

George Dalziel negotiated the lease for Kilspindie to layout a course at Craigielaw in 1898 and was elected their first captain. He did the same at North Berwick (East) and was elected the first captain of Glen Golf Club.

JAMES MILLIGAN (1883-1917)

James Milligan was killed on 11th April 1917, at Arras, Pas de Calais, France. His name is engraved on the Gullane War Memorial, beside the Auld Kirk graveyard.

FRED MCLEOD Factfile

DONALD MACKAY

Another golfer from Dornoch arrived in North Berwick at the same time, his named was Robert G. MacDonald. He was granted his professional ticket on the West Links in 1908, and gave his address as 1 Station Hill. Bob MacDonald emigrated to the USA in November 1910 and was pro at various clubs in Cleveland, Cincinnati, New York, Evanston, and Chicago. For many years he wintered at the Ormond Beach Golf Club in Florida and in 1919 the New York Times listed him the fourth best tour pro in the USA.

PHILIP MACKENZIE ROSS - Golf Course Architect

Philip Mackenzie Ross's father Alex M. Ross, better known as 'Sandy' Ross was a member of Edinburgh Burgess and learned to play the game over Bruntsfield Links. In 1897 he was captain of Luffness (New) and when a group of members broke away to form Kilspindie in 1898, Ross was invited along with Ben Sayers to lay out their new course at Craigielaw. Ross won many amateur competitions including the Hope Challenge Medal (1893, 1900) and the first Braid Hills Tournament (1889). At the Braids, over a 100 spectators followed Ross during the latter part of his round, also watching was Old Tom Morris and Andrew Kirkaldy. His best finish in the Open Championship was 13th place at Musselburgh in 1889. He was also captain of Tantallon Golf Club (1900-02) and his portrait and golf medals are now on display in the clubhouse of the Burgess Golfing Society at Barnton. In 1904, Ross built the impressive Hill House situated on top of Gullane Hill with his initials carved in the stonework above the entrance door and panoramic views over Luffness, Kilspindie and Gullane links. He died at Hill House in 1915 aged 65 years.

More pro golfers have resided in the stair at 98 High Street than any other. Ben Sayers (1895); Billy Keppie (1924); Willie Anderson (1893); Arthur Fennell (1956) Fred McLeod (1893); and Willie Stuart, a clubmaker with Sayers turned down the offer of a pro job in Detroit and stayed at home.

ROBERT MURRAY (1885-1944)

In December 1928 Murray and his wife returned to Germany and he was appointed to Lübeck-Travemünder Golf Club on the shores of the Baltic Sea (1928 - 1939). In 1930 Robert Murray won the German Professional Golfers Championship, he was runner-up in this event in 1911, 3rd in 1928 and 4th in both 1931 and 1932. He also won the Scandinavian Open in 1925. In September 1939 he returned to Denmark where he worked for a short period at Aalborg Golf Club. In 1940, he was arrested by German troops in Denmark and put into a POW camp until his release in 1941. The appalling conditions which prevailed in war-time Germany eventually took their toll and Robert Murray died in Dresden in November 1944.

WILLIAM NICHOLS (1882-1972)

Bill's wife Margaret was from Texas and they lived with their two sons and a daughter at 411 North 12th Street, Oklahoma City. Bill Nichols died in February 1972 at Broadway Manor, Muskogee, aged 89 years. As a teenager in North Berwick his golfing highlight was being selected to represent the Bass Rock Golf Club in the four-man team to play in the Wemyss County Cup, now the oldest foursome tournament in the world. His regular partner in the Bass Rock competitions was Fred McLeod, US Open champion in 1908. Nichols was a founder member of Corstorphine Golf Club in Edinburgh which became Ratho Park Golf Club. An interclub match between Bass Rock and Ratho continues to be played annually for the Fred McLeod Trophy. A friendship between golf clubs started by Bill Nichols in 1902 and has now lasted over a century.

HARRY REDDIE

When Anderson moved to Baltusrol, Reddie replaced him at Watch Hill and when the new 18 hole course at Misquamicut was opened on 4th July 1898, Harry Reddie set a new course record 70. He wintered with Anderson in Florida and played in the Palm Beach Open. By 1910, Harry was working in the sports equipment store of Harry C. Lee & Company in New York. They specialised in importing good quality golf clubs and Harry was engaged in demonstrating the clubs and giving lessons. Harry lived with his German wife and son Henry in Manhattan until the 1930s.

BUD RUSSELL (1909-1997)

He served in the RAAF in the South Pacific during WW2, reaching the rank of sergeant. In the 1960s he was granted permission to enter the members' clubhouse for the first time; an old fashioned rule today, but a significant gesture by the committee a decade before other Australian golf clubs. Jean Donald from North Berwick (listed below) visted Victoria in the 1960s. She was the first lady professional in Scotland and played an exhibition match at Barwon Heads. In 1977, Bud Russell was conferred Honorary Life Member of Barwon Heads Golf Club and was acknowledged among the Queen's Honours with a B.E.M. in 1982 for services to golf and his community. Bud Russell retired after 57 years with the club and died in 1997, aged 88 years, at Geelong, Victoria.

BEN SAYERS Factfile

GEORGE SAYERS (1887-1977)

His wife Etta had a parallel career in nursing, and wherever George was based she would work in the local hospital. She was President of the Oregon State Nurses Association before returning to Greeley in Colorado after George died in 1924.

The New York Times described George Turnbull as the 'nationally known professional golfer' which reflected his standing in his adopted country. By all accounts Turnbull enjoyed every minute of his brief twenty years in America, moving to ten different golf clubs, never staying more than two seasons, and able to pick and choose his next destination. California in the winter, Chicago in the summer but he kept returning to the northwest where he enjoyed the cloud covered mountains, just like home.

The course at Portland Golf Club laid out by George Turnbull in 1918 has hosted the PGA Championship in 1946 and the Ryder Cup in 1947. Turnbull would have been delighted that the legends of golf have all played his course including Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, Arnold Palmer, and Byron Nelson. Although the course has since been tweaked for the modern game, the layout remains a testament to Turnbull's short career.

TOM WARRENDER

It has been suggested that Willie Park Jnr. during his visit to the USA the previous year, recommended Tom Warrender to the Knollwood Country Club in New York and Willie Anderson to Misquamicut Golf Club on Rhode Island when Park assisted in laying out those courses. During this period Willie Park Jnr. had a residence and club makers workshop in North Berwick and would have been familiar with both men and their families. Within a few months of his arrival Tom Warrender played in the US Open at Shinnecock Hills on Long Island.

During the winter months in Grand Rapids the Furniture City Golf League leased part of the Cadillac Building and installed Jimmy Wilson as pro. In 1916 he wintered at Pinehurst, N.C; in 1920 at El Paso, TX and in 1922 at Tucson AZ. He moved to Ravisloe C.C, Homewood IL (1924-28) and wintered at Great Southern, Gulfport, MS. (1924-28). In the 1930s James Wilson resided in Springfield, Illinois<