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Ramsay Hunter
Sandwich

Born in Edinburgh in 1852 he learned carpentry and cabinetmaking from his father in the family business operating from Leven Street and golf on nearby Bruntsfield Links.

Ramsay Hunter had much to do with the development of the Open Championship venue of Royal St Georges at Sandwich. He was their first professional (combining this with the role of clubmaker, ballmaker, greenkeeper and caddymaster) from 1888 until 1900. With Dr Laidlaw Purves, another ex-Bruntsfield player who recruited him, he designed the course and, according to Bauchope’s Golfing Annual of 1888-9, writing of 1887 ‘gangs of workmen were placed under the charge of Ramsey Hunter, a professional from Scotland, and in one year the club expended in securing the ground, making the course, and forming the club' . He also designed Royal Porthcawl and Deal.

In 1900 he was dismissed for being 'worse with drink', a not uncommon reason for changing jobs among the early professionals and took up the post of professional to the Shooter's Hill club in London. He has left some very well made clubs and was a founder member of the PGA in 1902.

He died in 1909 while working with Willie Park on the laying out of the Gravesend course.

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