Roy Ullyett (1914 – 2001) (Photo by in 1975 by Angela Deane-Drummond/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Roy Ullyett, one of the most popular and distinctive sports cartoonists of his generation, died on 20 October, 2001 aged 87. His professional...
NB – Extensive AGW tributes to Bill still to be added. Bernie Feb, 2021. Bill Blighton, who covered the PGA Tour for several British newspapers, died Tuesday 31st January, 2001 of a heart attack. He was aged just 54 reported ‘The Golf...
Percy Huggins – A founding member of the Association of Golf Writers.(Photo – Thank You to Mike Harris/Golf Monthly) PERCY HUGGINS died aged 87 on 16th October, 2000 and was the voice of radio golf commentary in Scotland for a quarter of a century, and...
William John Camkin, MA (23 June 1922 – 19 June 1998) was an English journalist, football, business and sports administrator. Camkin was born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire, the son of Bill Camkin and Helena Ethel Holder. His father was managing...
La Jolla resident Fred Tupper, who covered 13 summer and winter Olympics for the New York Times and was a renowned tennis and golf writer, died Thursday 18th December, 1986 in an El Cajon convalescent home after a long illness. He was 75. A London-based executive with...
NB – Still reasarching details – Secretary 3/2021 Pat Ward-Thomas- Born 1913, Died 1982 (Photo by Bob Thomas Sports Photography via Getty Images) Not Only Golf (1981) The selections in The Lay of the Land are chosen from the best essays in the three books...
Henry Carpenter Longhurst (18 March 1909 – 21 July 1978) was a British-born golf writer and commentator. For 45 years, he was golfing correspondent of the Sunday Times. During World War II, Longhurst was also a member of parliament (MP)...
Eleanor E Helme – Founding member of the AGW Born in Cobham, Surrey on 30th December, 1887, Eleanor Helme was the youngest of four children. Her father had been a merchant with the East India Company and a J.P. for Surrey. Her brother Thomas died in 1918 as a...
Bernard Darwin – One of the founding members and first President of the Association of Golf Writers Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin CBE JP (Born 7 September 1876 – Died 18 October 1961) a grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was...
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