Bernard Darwin
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Oct 27, 2026
Henry BlofeldGUEST
He played his cricket when the game began, so to speak.
Henry BlofeldGUEST
It's Bernard Darwin's biography of W.G. Grace.
Henry BlofeldGUEST
which isn't with me here, it's in Menorca, a wonderful book because I read this when I was really quite young and it suddenly meant for me that this extraordinary bearded figure who was, I can remember going through the Grace Gates at Lord's and I suppose that's really where I first met him, and all one heard about was his bad temper and his ill behaviour.
Henry BlofeldGUEST
But if you read that Burton Jarvis book, beautifully written, you realise what an extraordinary man WG was.
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Huw TurbervillHOST
Anyway,
Henry BlofeldGUEST
they were all part of, all these books were all part of my cricket upbringing.
Henry BlofeldGUEST
And if I had to take one, I'd have joint ones, I think, with Arthur Mailer's 10 for 66 and Bernard Darwin's W.G. Grace.
Huw TurbervillHOST
All right.
Jon GegenheimerGUEST
But to get into their heads, it's especially valuable for a lawyer to get into the judge's heads and know how to conduct a trial or write a brief, what the particular judge likes, what he dislikes.
Jon GegenheimerGUEST
And if you wanna get to know somebody, and Freud tells this to Churchill, as does the man who coached him and taught him how to play golf, this is the alternative history part, The man who coached him was none other than Bernard Darwin, a very accomplished amateur golfer, a graduate of Oxford, a wonderful, really famous barrister in the United Kingdom, but he got disenchanted with the law, started writing sports columns about golf, and he was the foremost golf writer all over Western Europe and in North America.
Jon GegenheimerGUEST
And he teaches Hitler how to, he teaches Churchill how to play golf in the short space.
John BrinkHOST
You use the word for my friends watching us from around the world.
Jon GegenheimerGUEST
They combine.
Jon GegenheimerGUEST
You don't have them separated.
Jon GegenheimerGUEST
And so Bernard Darwin, by the way, is a historical character, obscure, but a very influential character who... was the first grandson of Charles Darwin.
Jon GegenheimerGUEST
And he grew up under, raised almost by his grandfather in southeast England, Kent County.
speaker_0HOST
And then you've got the Harry Colt new.
speaker_0HOST
And you've brought along this pamphlet that was produced by Bernard Darwin that has some of the original imagery, which we'll put in some of the show notes.
speaker_0HOST
Mm-hmm.
speaker_0HOST
But if you look at some of the holes, I mean, this one here of the fourth, I mean, it's,
David NormoyleGUEST
Well, I think my dream foursome companion at dinner, and that's not maybe exactly the question, would be Charles Blair MacDonald.
David NormoyleGUEST
I would like to spend time with Bernard Darwin, Bobby Jones, and Arnold Palmer because you get from those four people a view of the game from the 1870s to the last decade.
David NormoyleGUEST
And their perspective would be remarkable.
David NormoyleGUEST
But as for particular favorite dinner companions today, a friend of mine, at a club that I was lucky to be invited to join one said to me, what I love about this place is that even though it's slightly onerous to become a member, what that means is that everybody you meet is about to be interesting.
Matt MollicaHOST
During the process of designing and planning the Lido course, MacDonald invited the Country Life readers and amateur architects to submit designs for inclusion in the Lido course.
Matt MollicaHOST
And the competition was judged by Bernard Darwin, Herbert Fowler, and Horace Hutchinson.
Matt MollicaHOST
The winning entry was to be constructed as a component of the finished Lido course, and Mackenzie's famous winning design was a par-5 hole, which I think we've got a picture of in that portfolio as well, with multiple routes depicted, And the Lido that Lucas Michel has just played as a part of the US Mid Amateur has a faithful recreation of that hole, not at the northern tip of Long Island, but within the Lido hole at Sand Valley, or the Lido course, rather, at Sand Valley.
Matt MollicaHOST
And it's amazing to think that McKenzie sort of had this thought on alternate routes and the fact that he took inspiration from the 14th at the old course at St Andrews I think there's someone on earth who's had this hole design inscribed on them as a tattoo, Scott.
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Matt MollicaHOST
I knew I'd make one or two little slips like that.
Matt MollicaHOST
Sorry.
Matt MollicaHOST
1922, in late February, at his home, which has the name Moore Allerton Lodge in Leeds, Mackenzie hosts Bernard Darwin for three days of golf.
Matt MollicaHOST
The first day they go to Al Woodley in Moortown.
Ken WiseHOST
Ouimet shoots 72 to win the United States Open.
Ken WiseHOST
The great golf wr- writer Bernard Darwin, uh, was the scorekeeper for Ouimet that day, and he called that round, quote, "By far the most enthralling game of golf that I have ever seen," close quote.
Ken WiseHOST
It wa- it's one of the great golf stories, uh, in golf history.
Ken WiseHOST
And by the way, Ouimet's caddie was a 10-year-old named Eddie Lowry, who would go on to be a great, uh, figure in golf.