Ganton

So he says, On achieving this, we thought our troubles were over, but in reality they were only just beginning, as every committee meeting was a dogfight, and on many an occasion we nearly came to blows.

At that time, Harry Colt made a great success of his alterations at Sunningdale, and two months previously, he'd got his first fee for advising on alterations at Ganton, a glorious natural course where Harry Varden was professional.

And so Ganton is in the northeast of England, in the same sort of region as Allwoodley, so people would be more familiar and more able to go and play Ganton than to play Sunningdale, which is down in London, just for context.

So, a glorious natural course where Harry Varden was professional.

As it was an exceedingly wet and unpleasant winter, none of the committee went near the course except Arthur Sykes and myself.

If we fast forward a little bit, we've talked about the time that he first met Colt.

We're going to jump forward to 1911 and McKenzie was asked to advise Harrogate Golf Club as to alterations of their course.

And this stream of work Requests for advice on bunkering and little changes to holes continued into 1912 and Mackenzie by this stage had received a few commissions at several different English clubs, Reddishvale, Garforth, Ganton, Harrogate and others.

Wow.

Yeah, and the British Amateur was at Ganton in Scarborough in England.

So-

Vardon's place, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

So I went over there, and before I went to Ganton for the amateur and to, to get ready, I decided to go up to Dornoch.

And I went up there, intended to stay just for a day, but I was so enamored of it and so taken with it that I ended up staying for 10 days at Dornoch.