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A K Dewar
St Andrews/St Paul/Duluth
Born in St Andrews, 26 July 1881, Andrew Kenley Dewar worked as a house painter in the town. He was a fine sportsman. In addition to golfing he played football for St Andrews sides and professionally for East Fife: ‘their crack outside left’, the St Andrews Citizen called him. He must have had itchy feet as the same newspaper noted his intention to leave for South Africa in 1905 but it seems he did not go.

In 1913, though, he did leave, sailing from Glasgow on the California and arriving in New York on 8 April 1913 with his destination stated as the Rock Island GC to stay with fellow St Andrean, Alec Robertson. The local paper duly reported him being Alec’s assistant later that year.

By 1916 he is in Minnesota, professional at the Northwood club in St Paul where he remained until 1924. In 1916 also his name appeared in a a case in the Court of Session in Edinburgh. He sought divorce from his wife who had given birth to twins on the previous Christmas Day. Speaking for him, his brother Thomas gave evidence that Andew had left for America three years previously and had never been back. The divorce was granted and, by the time of the hearing, both twins were dead.

He moved to the Ridgeview club in Duluth between 1924 and 1926 and seems to have finished his golfing career at Saginaw, MI.

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