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![]() Clubmakers Bob Munro Carnoustie/London ![]() He accepted the post of clubmaker and professional to the Tooting Bec club in London in October 1892 but his stay here was brief moving to become professional at Royal Mid-Surrey the following year and taking on Cuthbert Butchart as his assistant. He also employed Willie Smith here as a clubmaker. During this time at Richmond he developed a method of weighting club heads by inserting the lead weight not as a backweight but as a threaded screw, or screws, from the clubface. For added protection and neatness, these holes on the face were covered with a brass or other metal plate. He was awarded a patent for this applied to brassies in 1895. J H Taylor took over at Royal Mid-Surrey in 1899 when Munro moved first to Chislehurst (1899-1902), turning down an offer to go the United States, and then Wimbledon (1902-1907). His business acumen and organisational ability was again in demand and he went to work for A G Spalding’s British operation. In 1912 he became a club professional again at the Colne Valley club in Woodford but enlisted in 1915. After the war he ran the specialist golf department at George Alexander’s in London and was a golf instructor in Selfridge’s London store.
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