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Sam White
Crieff/Scranton, PA

Born in East Path, Carnoustie on 22 March 1877, and winner of the Carnoustie Caddies’ Tournament, confined to caddies and professionals, in 1902, Sam White took over from Peter Rainford as professional at Crieff in April 1903.

He played in the big professional tournament in Montrose in 1905 with the affiliation of Crieff but it seems this only occupied him during the summer months. He attended a farewell ‘smoking concert’ at Carnoustie in March 1906 as one of the Carnoustie golfers going to the United States. Most of the others, Fred Brand, James Maiden and David Robertson, for example, were home on holiday: White was going to try his luck across the Atlantic for the first time.

As assistant at the Philmont Country Club in Pennsylvania he played in the 1909 US Open missing the cut. He fared better in the 1910 competition with the affiliation of the Bellfield Country Club in Whitemarsh, PA.

He returned to Scotland to enlist during the First World War, serving in the Black Watch from 1915 until he was captured and made a POW during the retreat of March 1918.

Sam returned to the United States in February 1920 on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria from Liverpool to New York with his destination stated as his friend, John Reid, at Woodway Country Club in Springdale, CT.

At some point (at least between 1922 and 1934) he was professional at Fox Hill at Scranton where he taught Art Wall who won the Masters in 1959. His last appointment was at Honesdale, PA, where he died in December 1955.

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