Fred Daly’s Dunlop 65


on television when she heard mention of the 1947 winner at Hoylake, Irishman Fred Daly. Her ears pricked up because she realised she still had the ball with which Fred claimed the Claret Jug by one shot in the drawer of her sideboard. Brenda’s father, Charles Cowling, a close


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friend of Fred, had spectated at his triumph, and afterwards was gifted the Dunlop 65, No 4, signed and dated. Brenda explained: “My father was the head salesman for Wormald and Walker Blankets in Dewsbury, who made the best


In 2014 a lady called Brenda Firth was watching The Open


blankets in the world. He used to do a lot of travelling all around the British Isles and he would invariably take his golf clubs with him. When he was in Northern Ireland, he used to play at the Balmoral Golf Club in Belfast where Fred Daly was the professional, and they became very good friends over a period


of time. So when Fred played tournaments over here, particularly on the Leeds courses, he used to stay at our house in Dewsbury.” How kind it was of Brenda to make


contact with Royal Liverpool and offer the ball as an addition to the Club’s collection of memorabilia. We are forever in her debt.


Double Rainbow


an object I suppose, but the one that appeared in the Wirral sky in September 2012 jogs the memory of the extraordinary


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A double rainbow is a natural phenomenon rather than


conditions in which the RICOH Women’s British Open was played. In the 17th century Sir Isaac Newton demonstrated that light is made up of component colours, doing away with the prevailing wisdom back then that colours were blends of light and different degrees of


darkness. There was plenty of the latter to contend with as play on the final day at Hoylake extended well into the evening when Ji-Yai Shin continued to navigate her way through both the gloom and the grim weather to take the title by the remarkable margin of 9 shots.


Photo: Tristan Jones


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