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Ernie Bisset
Carnoustie/Sydney/Perth
Born in Carnoustie on 3 November 1905 to David, a yarn dresser in a jute factory, and Annie née Will, Ernest David Bisset (though always Bissett in public records) grew up at 138 Kinloch Street.
He was an apprentice clubmaker in the town with Robert Simpson and an outstanding golfer in local competitions, winning the Carnegie Shield of the Carnoustie club in 1922 and a member of the New Taymouth club which won the county championship the following year.
By 1928 he was the pro at the Victor Harbour club on the Fleurieu peninsula in South Australia and the following year he was runner-up to Rufus Stewart in the Australian professional championship. Remaining in South Australia he became professional to the Mount Osmond club and married Kathleen Moss in Adelaide in 1931. That same year he moved to Perth, Western Australia, to take up the post of professional at the Mount Yokine club. He won the Western Australian Open in 1932 and the Western Australia professional championship in 1933 and 1935.
Ernie returned to Angus in 1938 and was briefly professional at the Panmure club. He also advertised golf lessons, bookable through the Robert Simpson golf shop in Carnoustie, with the slogan “bad golfers made good, good golfers made better”. After the Second World War he was again offering tuition, now through Arthur Ross's clubmaking business but also entered in the 1946 Scottish professional matchplay tournament, losing in the semi-final.
He became professional at Stonehaven in July 1947 but was only there eleven months before succeeding Robert Dornan at Edzell. He left this post at the end of October 1953.
Ernie died in Arbroath in 1974.
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