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Joseph Cheal
Seaford
Born nearby in 1886, and one of several golfing brothers, Joe Cheal spent his entire career at Seaford Golf Club in Sussex.

He began here as assistant to Tom Yeoman in the first years of the twentieth century. Yeoman left in 1906 and Cheal took over as professional. A new course was being laid out and this opened the following September, celebrated by Joseph Cheal playing with J H Taylor, against another two Open Champions in James Braid and Jack White, himself a former Seaford pro.

On the 1911 census he appears at 6 Melborne Terrace, Seaford, a golf professional living with wife Mary and two sons.

He regularly played in qualifying for the Open in, at least, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1913 and 1914 and post-war at Sandwich in 1922 and Hoylake in 1930.

Peter, his youngest son, was an assistant with him in the thirties before spending four years as assistant at Sunningdale and becoming professional at Peterborough in 1945.

Joseph Cheal died in Eastbourne in 1965.

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