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Tom Watt
Bridge of Weir
Born in Bridge of Weir in 1880, Thomas Whitecross Watt began his career as professional at the local Old Ranfurly club. He played in the 1905 Open Championship at St Andrews finishing in a tie for 18th place with Archie Simpson and Jack White, fairly exclusive company.

In 1906 he spent a year as assistant to Peter McEwan, scion of the great Musselburgh clubmaking family, at Hesketh, and was with him as a member of the Scottish team which faced England the following year.

In 1907 he took up the professional's post at Timperley in Cheshire, to replace George Duncan, and remained here until the outbreak of the First World War when he moved to the Houldsworth club in Higher Levenshulme. He won the Northern Professional Championship (The Courier Cup) in 1908. In November 1915 he enlisted with the Lancashire Fusiliers and was later transferred to the Lincolnshire Regiment. In action with them, he was injured by shrapnel in the right leg and foot.

This was apparently not serious enough for him to claim a pension on his discharge in 1919 but I find no record of him as a professional after the war. If any reader has information on him I should be most grateful if you could share this. His Army medical records note the excision of ‘rodent ulcers’ (basal cell carcinoma) on his head and I wonder if this was significant.

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