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Alec Simpson
Monifieth/Maidenhead etc
Alec Simpson was a great amateur player in Monfieth in the early 1890s winning many local championships and, at least according to a newspaper article regarding his appointment at Stonehaven, a nephew of Archie Simpson.
He learned his clubmaking working with Hendersons in Broughty Ferry. Although he was unsuccessful in his first application for a professional post at Newcastle in 1894 he began his professional career at Forfar the same year before heading south to Maidenhead in 1896 where he served until 1908. He produced his own design, square-hoselled Maidenhead Putter while he was here.
Dundee’s Evening Telegraph had some dire prose on his resignation being ‘a voluntary sacrifice …. and a longing to breathe the fresh winds that blow on Tayside’ but he seems to have bypassed the Tayside winds and gone further north to be professional at Stonehaven between 1909 and 1912 although he did open a clubmaking business in his native Monifieth in 1911.
Perhaps the fresh air proved all too much for him; he headed for the industrial north-west of England and became professional at Old Manchester in 1912.
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