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Douglas Hurry
Cambridge/Kidderminster
Douglas Harry Hurry was born in 1863 and the first golfing record I have found of him was breaking the course record at Cambridge, mentioned in Golf magazine in March 1892. It is not clear whether he was yet professional at the club but was by May 1893 when he broke his own record over the Royston course.

A new club was founded in Borth in Mid-Wales in 1899 and the local paper announced his appointment as professional in July of that year remarking on his good reputation as a coach. Something clearly did not work out, or perhaps there were not enough members to coach, but the club had an advertisement in the same paper in August stating that 'the professional will be here until October' and, indeed, in November 1899 he was recorded as playing as the professional in a club match for Kidderminster against Worcestershire Working Men.

He married in Birmingham in 1900 and is on the census in Kidderminster in 1901.

I am not sure how long he worked but he died in Kidderminster in 1906. A newspaper article from the Worcestershire Chronicle in 1903 reports on the trial of a boy of 12 found guilty of stealing 24 golf balls from Hurry's shop and being sentenced to 'six strokes of the birch rod'.

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