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William Yeoman
Chicago

William Yeoman was born on 19 May1866 in Banchory, Aberdeeenshire (historically Kincardineshire) the only boy among six children of Alexander Yeoman, a farmer, and his wife Agnes Berry.

William was still living at home with his widowed mother and employed as a house carpenter at the time of the 1891 census. It must have been some time during the 1890s he moved to St Andrews.

He emigrated to the USA with Fred Herd when Herd came back for a visit to St Andrews in the winter of 1898-99.

Both were professionals at the Washington Park club in Chicago and they set up the clubmaking firm Herd and Yeoman operating between 1902 and 1908, Yeoman leaving to set up the Nicotine Golf Ball Company which, as the advert shows,.‘rebrambled’ the popular golf balls of the day. Yeoman had also left the Washington Park club with another Herd brother, Jim, the two becoming professionals at the South Shore Country Club in 1907.

With Thomas Bendelow (originally from Aberdeen) and fellow St Andrean Robert White, Yeoman was one of the three founders of the Western PGA in 1905.

William died at his home in Chicago on 8 October 1937.

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