Chronicle of the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh, 1735-1935

PROMINENTBURGESSPLAYERS
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more
successful,
as
he
won
that
trophy
no
less
than
eighteen
times.
When
he
was
fifty-seven
years
of
age,
hesetupanewrecordforBarntonwithascoreof
75,
thus
reversing
the
figures
of
his
age,
and
probably
givingoneofhisbestperformances.In
1889
Mr.
Ross
won
the
Autumn
Gold
Medal
at
Musselburgh
withascoreof
86,
afterhavingtakenelevenstrokesfor
Mrs.
Foreman's
hole
in
the
second
round.
Many
of
the
other
yearly
competitions
were
Won
by
him.
In
the
long
history
of
the
Society
nothing
has
ever
ap-
proached
this
wonderful
record.
One
of
the
most
prominent
players
at
Barnton
was
thelateAngusM`Donald,whodiedin
1917.
For
many
years
he
was
looked
upon
as
an
outstanding
player
in
and
around
Edinburgh,
East
Lothian,
and
else-
where,
and
he
played
in
the
Amateur
Championship
on
several
occasions.
He
defeated
golfers
of
good
repute
in
that
event
;
and
the
famous
John
Ball
fell
before
Angus
M`Donald
in
the
sixth
round
of
the
1903
competitionatMuirfield.Inthatmatch,whichhe
won
on
the
last
green,
he
took
the
thirteenth,
fourteenth,
and
fifteenth
holes
in
a
succession
of
3's,
a
performance
which
elicited
from
the
famous
Hoylake
player
the
good-natured
remark,
"
I
cannot
be
expected
to
win
against
such
golf
and
such
figures."
M`Donald
was
ultimately
beaten
in
the
semi-final
of
the
competition
by
Horace
Hutchinson.
The
Society
has
not
yet
provided
an
amateur
champion,
though
several
of
its
members
have
suc-
ceeded
in
playing
themselves
well
within
grasp
of
the
honour.
An
ex-Captain
of
the
Society,
in
the
person
of
the
late
C.
E.
S.
Chambers,
scion
of
a
great
golfing
family,
sonofthe"firstAmateurChampion"of
1858
1
and
grandsonofoneofthefoundersof
CbalnbersJournal,
reached
the
semi-final
in
the
second
year
of
the
champion-
shipatSt.Andrewsin
1886,
beingdefeatedbyHorace
SeeP.
50,
supra.
it
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