Can you help fill some of these golfing trophy gaps?
Date published: 18 November 2024
Local golf legends Les Lawton and Alan Squires with the District Scratch Championship trophy
A golf group that organises the sport’s ‘major’ competitions in Oldham is seeking the help of the public to solve some omissions on its 100-year-old trophies.
The Oldham and District Golf Association is made up of five local clubs – Brookdale, Crompton and Royton, Oldham, Saddleworth and Werneth.
And the trophies they play for include the District Scratch 36-hole Championship and the Centenary Trophy - the District Championship dates back to 1903.
There is a plan to establish honours boards in each of the five clubs to acknowledge the achievements of the winners.
However, in some of the years, only the player's name has been engraved on the trophy and not his home club.
A total of 45 names were on an original “missing years” list, but 27 of these have now been identified.
Now ODGS secretary David Whaley is looking for help in putting a club to the names of the final 18 so that the records are complete when the new boards are commissioned.
“Hopefully readers might recognise a family member and know which club they played at and it would ensure they get a place on the new honours boards,” said David.
Please contact: davewhaley1@gmail.com with any further information.
The list of 18 is as follows:
District Championship:
1929 J Ashton
1930 J Ashton
1934 Harold Tong
1980 P Drake
Centenary Trophy:
1950 Frank Heywood
1951 Walter H Howarth
1952 George T Mellor
1953 Andrew Gregory
1955 William Lees
1956 B Tanner
1958 L Wilson
1961 Geoffrey Woodhead
1969 J Boyce
1977 David Eyre
1979 Ivan Parfitt
1981 Jim Grattan
1988 P Philips
1998 John Standring
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