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H Wilson
Sidcup

Harry Wilson (although when other players’ names were listed in articles, and even when he appeared in a newspaper cartoon, he was always just “H Wilson”) was the long-serving professional at Sidcup.

Jackson’s Register has him there from 1910 which seems right as he was entered from Sidcup in Open Qualifying for Muirfield in 1912. He was there until at least the late 1930s (the photograph is from 1936).

Sidcup opened a new course in 1913 and he played in a celebratory foursome match with James Braid against Jack Randall of Sundridge and Ted Ray. A warning to hickory players that clubs don’t just break because they are a hundred or so years old, Wilson’s driver snapped at the socket as he drove from the first tee.

In tournament terms the early 1920s were his most productive period, qualifying for the final rounds of the Open at St Andrews in 1921, missing out in 1922 but reaching the final rounds of the 1923 “Daily Mail” Ł1000 tournament at Lytham from qualifying at Purley Downs.

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