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Harry Baker
Prestbury
The Prestbury GC opened in 1920 as the Prestbury and Upton GC and Harry Baker was probably its first professional as he and his wife were thanking members of the club for their expressions of sympathy following the death of the Bakers’ daughter the following year.

In 1922 he qualified for the final match-play part of the Ł750 PGA championship (the News of the World tournament) coming second in Northern qualifying behind Archie Compston.

He was still there in 1925 as he was on the fundraising committee for the Macclesfield infirmary in his capacity as Prestbury professional and again qualified for the matchplay stage of the PGA tournament.

By 1926, however, he was playing in the PGA Northern Qualifier at Prestbury but was shown as “unattached” in terms of club affiliation.

A much later (1980s) newspaper item mentioned him later being professional at the Macclesfield club but I have come across no record of this. In attending the funeral of Mrs Pierpoint in 1937, the wife of his successor as professional at Prestbury, he was described as ‘the former professional at Prestbury’.

He was advertising a tropical lotion for rheumatism in 1926, an ailment which he said had prevented him playing golf (until, of course, he tried the wonderful elixir) so perhaps this had something to do with a curtailed career.

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