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Albert Haskins
Hoylake
One of four brothers involved in golf and clubmaking, three in the UK and one in America, he was professional at West Derby from 1896 until his retirement in 1936. He started with a wage of 5 shillings per week. To put that into perspective his father Arthur, the interesting combination of hairdresser and clubmaker, was offering 12 shillings for a haircutter and shaver a couple of years later.

It is not clear, to me at least, how much involvement he had with the family’s clubmaking and sports outfitters business in Hoylake other than presumably having acquired his clubmaking skills there. Haskins of Hoylake was really his brother John’s preserve.

He was a Ryder Cup selector in 1933 and 1937, secretary of the Northern PGA, founder of the Golfers' Alliance and a director of the Professional Golfers' Cooperative Society.

In his retirement he was living in Hoylake and died on 27 January 1945.

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