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Antique Golf Clubs from Scotland
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Fred Whiting
Cornwall/Sandwich
Fred Whiting was born in Worcester in 1874, one of six brothers, six of whom became golf professionals and one a very good amateur player.

He began his golfing career as apprentice clubmaker to the 1886 Open Champion David Brown at Malvern (and may have been the only British golfer to remember Brown with a wreath at his funeral when the old champion died in the Inveresk poorhouse in 1936 - the Americans were more generous).

Whiting became professional to the West Cornwall club at Lelant in 1901 and in July 1911, two months after Tom Vardon left for America, he was appointed professional to Royal St George's at Sandwich. The Aberdeen Journal thought it ‘a surprise appointment … as it was generally thought it would be offered to one of the younger players who did well in the recent Open Championship’ which Whiting did not enter. It seemed to work out, he was there until 1948 at which point his son, Albert, took over until 1970 and then grandson, Cyril, until 1988 so 77 years in the same family.

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