Original caption: “You have played very well indeed,” said “Bobby” Jones, when in the sixth round in the Amateur Open Championship, he walked towards Andrew Jamieson, the 21-year-old Scot, who had defeated him on the 15th green.
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Extract from “James Braid and his 400 golf courses” by John F. Moreton and Iain Cumming.
James Braid was also involved in post-war re-design. Read here
Two years before this card, J.H.Irons who won the Championship four times was back to scratch, having been +5 and Andrew Jamieson, who was just 18, was also scratch, having come down very quickly from 4. In Jamieson’s case this was two years before his great years of 1926/7 (See posts under “Andrew Jamieson”)
Course length taken from card in Glasgow Archives.
Note restriction on use of irons from the tee !
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Extracted from the Centenary booklet.
It can be seen that some of the holes were in the field to the left of the current 6th & 11th holes
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