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A Steer
Gatwick/Ceylon
I am unsure if A Steer is a relative of Jack Steer but Jack was born in Surrey, in the south, and this Steer began his career at Leyburn in Yorkshire, in the north of England, around 1907, so there may be no connection. His professional course record at Leyburn still stood in the 1920s, three better than the amateur record of 70 set by the great Johnny Laidley so he could clearly play a bit.

He did move south, to the Copthorne club in Sussex, the following year and remained there until 1912 or 1913. Jackson’s register has him as assistant to J Paterson at the nearby Gatwick club but that does not seem to tally. Steer was professional here in his own right in 1913 with Paterson only becoming professional in 1914.

Sometime after his sojourn in Sussex he went off to be professional at Nuwara Eliya in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) which a letter to the Sheffield Independent as early as 1896 described as ‘golf links here which are second to none in the East'. He was here from the mid-1920s until at least the end of the decade at which time a press report called Nuwara Eliya, ‘'the famous hill station to which sooner or later, all the English in Ceylon repair, and nearly all world travellers via Colombo climb for golf or other refreshment'.

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