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Harry Ogg
Carnoustie/Glasgow
There were two Harry Oggs of the same generation playing in Angus in the first decade of the twentieth century (and an older one who had done battle on the links with Braid, Vardon, Herd and Kirkaldy and now sat on the committee of the Carnoustie club). The two younger Oggs were both born in Carnoustie but one moved to Arbroath and largely played there. They turned professional within a year of one another but one in Scotland, the other in the USA. Both played in the 1905 Telegraph and Post Cup, the unofficial Scottish Amateur Championship.

This Harry, Harry Lowson Ogg, was born in 1884 to William and Helen née Ramsbottom. He was living with the family in Panmure Street at the time of the 1901 census and described as an apprentice iron moulder. Some internet forum was discussing him being at Merion in Pennsylvania at the end of the decade. That was the other Harry Ogg. This one continued to play as an amateur at Carnoustie and, at the time he was supposed to have been at Merion, he was competing in the Dalhousie Cup and the Scottish Amateur Championship.

His first, and the only one attached to a club, professional position was at Drumchapel in Glasgow towards the end of 1911. The Evening Telegraph noted his entry to the Open qualifier for Muirfield in 1912 was his first foray into professional competition. The Drumchapel course was ploughed up for agriculture around 1917 as part of the war effort so that put an end to golf there.

At some point Ogg moved back to Carnoustie where he was described as a ‘free-lance golf professional and instructor’ and he turned out in club matches, particularly the inter-town ones in the 1920s and 1930s. He died in Carnoustie in 1963.

His son, Ted, also became a professional, first an assistant at Skelmorlie and then assistant at Falsterbo and at Gothenburg in Sweden. After time as a travelling instructor for the Swedish Golf Union he became professional at Norrköping and later at Oslo in Norway.

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