AN ORIGINAL 1920 GLENEAGLES TOURNAMENT PHOTOGRAPH


That features 40 of the participating professionals, the majority of them with a neatly annotated name below. To include James Braid, J.H. Taylor, Gassiat and the Fernie brothers. Also Ted Ray who won the qualifying stage with a score of 151, taking a £25 prize; Abe Mitchell who led after the first day with a 71 [the best stroke-play round of the week for which he collected a £10 prize] but had an 81 on the second day and finished second in the qualifying; Harry Vardon who got to the last 16 by winning a play-off, George Duncan the tournament's winner and runner up Arnaud Massy, the photograph measures, 63cm wide, 16cm high (24 1/2in wide, 6in high).
|The Glasgow Herald Tournament (also known as the Gleneagles Tournament) was a British golf tournament played at Gleneagles from 1920 to 1927. The 1920 event had prize money of £650, then the largest ever in a British tournament and was played between 24 and 27 May. 104 professionals played 36 holes of qualifying on the first two days. The leading 16 players then played knock-out match-play on the following two days with £500 prize money. Players outside the top 16 were eligible for a 36-hole consolation event. Duncan won the £160 first prize, "the largest individual amount that has ever been offered in a professional golf tournament". In the 18-hole final Duncan was 5 up at the turn. Massy reduced the lead to 2 with four holes to play but Duncan won the 15th and halved the 16th. From 1921 the prize money was increased further, to 1,000 guineas, a new record. The first prize increased from £160 to £200. From 1921 the event was often called the Glasgow Herald 1000 Guineas Tournament