Introduction to the game of golf by Donald Grant
Date Added: 24 April 2008
Year: 1927
Institution Name: dnhhl
Cat No: ◀ | 2004_059 | ▶
Picture No: 1310
Photocopy of short typed account by Donald Grant of his introduction to golf in Dornoch.
Dimensions: A4
Year 1995 - 56 pictures
2 Comments
This is my grandfather, Donald Grant, whom, I believe, went on to win the Carnegie Sheild in the 1930's, helped develop Pinehurst golf course in America in the 1960s....amongst other things, in an extraordinary life.
Comment left on 24 August 2018 at 19:36 by John M Grant
He also won the Austrian Open in Vienna where he spirited away thousands of Jews from the Nazis. Was Einstein's interpreter at one point. Wrote the first Book on Donald Ross of Pinehurst and Dornoch plus another of his Personal Memories of Golf in Royal Dornoch. Tom Watson was so impressed with his knowledge and understanding of the game of golf that he asked for permission to write a foreword in a reprint of one of the books and actually sent payment towards the reprint. M
Comment left on 05 May 2019 at 21:32 by Calum Grant
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