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Hale Irwin. Hank Aaron. Harry Vardon. Henny Youngman. Henry Cotton. Ian Fleming. Jack Benny. In , Sayers gained a reputation for making a golf ball that bounced well.

He experiment with filing down rubber and mixing it with gutta percha in an ordinary mould. Catherine was part of the Thomson golfing dynasty, her sister Isabella married Davie Grant and their brother was Wilfred Thomson.

The Thomson girls refused to leave North Berwick and they all remained at home. According to the golf historian Robert H. Browning, Sayers only lasted a month before he returned to North Berwick. In , and , Sayers entered from James Place, No. In Sayers entered the Championship from his permanent base in a row of pantiled cottages at 41 Westgate, North Berwick. His mother had the dual job of raising four children and making golf balls for his father's business. At that time there was only one employee - his mother.

She turned out 12 dozen balls a day. Each piece was to weigh slightly more than 28 penny weights. His father carried them in all weights in his pockets while playing.

He used a heavy ball against the wind and a lighter one with the wind. James Law, a proprietor of the Scotsman newspaper, rented Archerfield House in the summer months, and was one of Ben Sayers first pupils. It has been said that Ben Sayers owed much of his success in life to James Law. During this period he made the marks on the outer cover of the balls with a hand-held mechanical cutting machine resembling a carpenter's plane. This produced lines that were parallel, straight and fine.

Ben Sayers Snr. In at St Andrews, Sayers tied with Jack Burns for the Championship on , and when it was found that Burns had scored 86 and not 87 in the first round, he was awarded the Open title. Jack Burns was unable to make the most of his talent and returned to caddying at St Andrews. Challenging the Open Champion was Sayers biggest contest to date. The town was busy with summer visitors eager to watch the professional competition. The first round started at 11am and after an evenly contested match by the time they reached Point Garry-In the champion was two up.

Sayers won the last hole to reduce his lead to one-up. At the start of the afternoon round a large group of spectators had gathered round the first tee at 2. Sayers won the Perfection hole by 4 strokes to 5 and the game was again on level terms.

They halved Redan but the champion won the next two holes and consequently won the match over the two rounds by two-up and one to play.

At the close the ex-Provost Peter Brodie who was referee presented both winner and loser with a sum of money which he stated had been subscribed by visitors and others. At the request of the ex-Provost a subscription was also taken on behalf of the caddies. The newspaper report on the match included a reference to the new hole named 'Perfection' for the first time.

When Tom Dunn the club-maker left North Berwick in , Ben Sayers took over his formal duties and was paid ten shillings to be in attendance at the North Berwick New Club council meetings and to see the Tantallon members off the tee at the start of their medal rounds. At that time James H. Hutchison from Musselburgh took over the rent of the clubmakers workshop beside the first tee.

Ben Sayers was granted a professional license on the West Links on 12th May Ben Sayers was one of ten licensed golf professionals on the West Links, four playing with the members and six available to give lessons.

Ben Sayers, Patent No. The specification consists of attaching a band or strip of rubber, cloth, leather or other material to the handle of each club in a slanting position, so as to form a loop into which the left hand passes to grip the club. By this means, the club cannot turn in the hand when making a stroke. In Sayers rented a shop at High Street and the following year he moved with his family to an apartment above at 98 High Street.

The press is now on display in the British Golf Museum. In , Sayers constructed a timber workshop on the garden wall of Inchgarry House adjacent to the 18th tee on the West Links. He extended that building in March and could now offer lockers for hire by the visitors, sold golf balls and repaired clubs until when it was taken down.

The golfers could arrange for a lesson with Davie Grant and the other freelance professionals in Sayers workshop which had numerous photographs of the rich and famous playing the West Links. Working from his small workshop Ben invented an approaching club which he named 'Benny' this happened just after the advent of the Haskell ball which everyone found so difficult to control over bunkers guarding the greens. His club was a great success and not long afterwards he invented another club which he named the 'jigger' this was a shallow-faced iron for a longer shot.

In Sayers rented the property at 14 Quality Street, above the Ship Inn and that year Sayers described himself as a 'golf club manufacturer' for the first time. James Hutchison the club-maker occupied the building next to the first tee until when his son-in-law Andrew Bisset continued the business until his death in As the hardship of WW1 began to bite and the club-makers were conscripted into the armed forces, the shop in Station Hill was closed and Sayers business moved to the vacant workshop on the West Links.

He also watched the children on the Ladies course. The newspapers suggested His Majesty would play in a foursome match with Mr. Arthur J. Balfour Prime Minister and Ben Sayers the local professional but they ran out of time.

Ben Sayers was presented to his Majesty by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar who hosted the King's visit and as such was later awarded the freedom of the Burgh. The King ordered a set of clubs from Sayers which included four woods and six iron clubs and in the afternoon Sayers played the West Links with the King's Equery. Sayers greatest strength was in match play, and his most historic match was in September when he and his brother-in-law, Davie Grant, played Hugh and Andrew Kirkaldy, a home and home foursome over North Berwick and St.

The brothers were at the height of their power and the two little men from North Berwick were thought to have been over-ambitious. Sayers used his Carruther's patent cleek to great effect off the tee and the North Berwick couple won so many holes over their own course as to demoralise their opponents the whole match ended 12 up with 11 to play. The umpires were Col.

Boyce and H. Balfour, Prime Minister , Horace G. Hutchinson, sports writer and Allan F. It was reported that during the match Ben Sayers and Hugh Kirkaldy had a violent altercation on a green as to whether a weed picked up by Sayers off the line of a long putt was growing, as the St.

Andrews men asserted, or was lying on the ground when lifted. This was one of many arguments that made the golf of that period an exciting game for the gallery. They played two rounds in the one day at North Berwick and two at St Andrews a few days later.

The match at North Berwick was described as a bad tempered affair. Kirkaldy disgusted with his play gave his ball a bang from the 17th green and it ran right over the first green on to the shore. Sayers gained six holes at North Berwick, but Andrew's first round at St. Andrews was such a fine one that the six holes were reduced to a single one.

In the afternoon that one disappeared also, and the match was square with five to go. Then Sayers did those last five in twenty strokes, tremendous golf with a gutty, and won the match by two holes. The umpire was Edward L. Sayers was a prominent book-keeper at important golfing events and backed himself heavily in the match against Kirkaldy. The railway station at North Berwick had a telegraph service and it was used to obtain the news of this celebrated match from St Andrews.

The Hotel was originally a Golf Room erected to serve the golfers playing the new Braid Hills golf course. Ben won the stroke-play competition to mark the opening of Luffness New course in October