PLATE 52 Wally Smithers (left) with his Walker ‘Cup partner Jimmy Bruen after they won the Daily Telegraph Amateur/ Professional Tournament at Formby in 1950.
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Te Open Champion, Bobby Locke, was a great friend of Wally’s and he
visited the Club several times in the 1950’s (see Chapter 2). Plate 53 shows (leſt to right) Eric Lester, Bobby Locke, Wally Smithers and Bernard Hunt with Wally’s dog Rocky on the 10th green at Long Ashton taken in 1954 during a match (see also Chapter 2, Plate 20).
PLATE 53
(Left to right) Eric Lester, Open Champion Bobby Locke, Wally Smithers and Bernard Hunt with Wally’s dog ‘Rocky’ on the 10th green at Long Ashton in 1954.