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![]() Clubmakers James Braid Walton Heath ![]() Beginning his working life as a joiner he became a clubmaker against parental wishes, going south to London to work at the Army and Navy Stores in 1893. His reputation as a player spread and a challenge match was arranged with the then Open Champion J.H. Taylor which was halved, Braid recovering from dormie two down. This performance secured him a job as pro at Romford in 1896. He moved to Walton Heath in 1904. I cannot recall seeing US-imported Braid clubs but a piece in the American press in 1919 notes that Braid’s stock as a clubmaker, already high, had gone still higher after Presiden Woodrow Wilson, at the Paris peace conference, remarked that he always played with a set of clubs Braid made for him. In addition to his skills on the course he proved a very successful president of the PGA and his legacy can be seen in the countless courses he designed, modified or offered advice on. His best-known creation is probably the King's Course at Gleneagles.
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