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William Watt
Dunbar/Epsom

William M Watt was born in Dunbar in 1889 one of five golfing brothers. He learned his clubmaking as an apprentice with Robert Thomson in Musselburgh.

He began his career in 1910 at Dirleton where he was clubmaker with his father and also, based on accounts regarding his eligibility when he was runner-up in the assistants’ championship of 1910, employed by Martin & Kirkaldy. He won the first Scottish Professional Championship in 1912 and represented Scotland against England that same year and the next. He gave golf lessons to the then Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith.

He enlisted in the Black Watch in 1915 but appears not to have served overseas as he became the first professional to the Royal Automobile club in Epsom where he remained until at least 1938.

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