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The
proposed spring Tour to Suffolk has been postponed for
this year. We shall however be considering visiting this
attractive area, in the East of England, in 2010 and
will send out advance notice later this year.
We are considering the East Coast of the United States, around New York for a tour in September 2010.
Would any member who is interested in this tour please contact Ken Horne, the Members' Secretary
Steve Toon Interviews
Lorne Rubenstein
Q: Golf has always been part of your life and I believe your father encouraged your interest in the game. How influential was he?
Lorne Rubenstein
Q: Golf has always been part of your life and I believe your father encouraged your interest in the game. How influential was he?
Peter Thomson C.B.E.
Honorary Member of the R & A, and renowned international golf course architect, whose work includes The Duke's Course, St. Andrews.
Honorary Member of the R & A, and renowned international golf course architect, whose work includes The Duke's Course, St. Andrews.
Open Championship Record
1952 - 2nd Royal Lytham & St. Annes
1953 - 2nd Carnoustie
1954 - 1st Birkdale
1955 - 1st St. Andrews
1956 - 1st Hoylake, Royal Liverpool
1957 - 2nd St. Andrews
1958 - 1st Royal Lytham & St Annes
1965 - 1st Royal Birkdale
LR: My dad loved all sports and in fact he played some professional football with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Canadian Football League. Because of him the atmosphere in the house was thick with sports: football, ice hockey, baseball, horse racing, and, of course, golf. He and I played most weekend mornings at a local public course, up at dawn and soon out together. When he died in 1989 he was carrying one of my golf columns.
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Peter Thompson Receives Honorary Degree
Australia's most successful golfer was honoured today (5th July) by Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh.
At an impressive ceremony at the Festival Theatre, Peter Thompson received a Doctor of Business Administration for his services to the golf and tourism industry.
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