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George Knight
Carnoustie/Bloxwich/Leeds
George Knight, born in 1909 and a younger brother of Stephen, was an outstanding young Carnoustie talent. He first picked up a golf club to play at the age of 15 and six years later he turned professional. In the meantime he had won almost every competition open to him in the town then captured the YMCA Scottish National Championship at Pitlochry in 1931. When the Open Championship was played at Carnoustie that year he was one of the amateurs to get through qualifying.

His first post in the paid ranks later that year was as the personal professional to Baron d’Orville who owned a private golf course on the shores of Lake Geneva. While in Switzerland he was runner-up in 1933 then won won the Swiss professional championship in 1934 at Lucerne, a feat emulating his other brother Ernest. He operated a clubmaker’s shop in Carnoustie and fulfilled his professional engagements in the summer.

The 1936 engagement was a little more exotic. Andrew Yule & Co, the jute manufacturers, sent him to India for five months where he reconstructed the company’s two golf courses at Budge-Budge and Manickpore.

Back in Carnoustie in September of that year he won the Scottish Professional Matchplay Championship on the neighbouring course of Barry, the first golfer from Carnoustie to achieve this feat, conquering his fellow townsman Gilbert Crichton in the final. Knight was also the last golfer to win it as the SPGA changed the format the following year, preferring a day of medal play to a week of matchplay.

He won four scratch medals in the Carnoustie competitions that summer then accepted the professional’s post at Bloxwich with the proviso that he be allowed to play in the Open at Carnoustie the following year. He did play and a spirited performance in the 3rd round with 3s at the 10th, 12th and 18th saw him qualify for the final afternoon round but a final round 83 left him tied for 37th place.

1946 brought a move to the Moor Allerton club in Leeds where he remained until July 1954.

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