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![]() Clubmakers Arthur Ham Skegness/NZ/Detroit ![]() Jackson lists him as professional at Masterton, New Zealand, from 1921 to 1924 but the club’s own history locates him in Wellington, coming in to resolve long running arguments about land to design an 18 hole course for the club. He did indeed go to New Zealand in 1921 and won the country’s professional championship at Manawatu in 1922 and an article in the Boston Guardian in November 1921 confirms he sailed on the SS Mahano to take up a position with the Wellington GC. In addition to his exploits in New Zealand, he came second in the Australasian Golf Championship in Adelaide After New Zealand he went to Michigan in the United States becoming professional at Plum Hollow and designing several of the state’s courses such as Knollwood and Arbor Hills. The photograph is from his time in Michigan, training cocker spaniels to find lost golf balls by scent. I am impressed by anyone who can train a cocker to do more than walk in a straight line.
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