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Mungo Park jnr
Musselburgh/NYC

Mungo Park was the younger brother of Willie Park jnr and the nephew of Mungo Park snr, the winner of the 1874 Open Championship, and born in Musselburgh in 1877.

Aged 19, he went to New York to open a branch of his brother’s business but this only lasted one, or at most two, years as Mungo was advertising for a professional’s position for 1898 in Golf. During his time in New York he laid out the nine hole Dutchess GC course at Poughkeepsie in 1897 then began 1898 as the professional to the Dyker Meadow Club in Brooklyn.

He went to Galveston at the end of 1898 and laid out a nine hole course there and remained for six months as the professional. He was reported as ‘just back’ in Scotland in November 1900 when the course and clubhouse were destroyed by a tornado. The 1901 census in April found him living in Nuffield in Oxfordshire with his wife and with brother, Willie. This was the period he was assistant manager on his brother’s ill-fated. self-financed project at Huntercombe consisting of three golf courses and a hotel and housing development.

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