Scotland, United Kingdom
Harry Vardon is credited with laying out the course at Balmore Golf Club back in 1907 and his crossover fairway design for the par threes at holes 15 and 16 endures to the present day.
Harry Vardon is credited with laying out the course at Balmore Golf Club back in 1907 and his crossover fairway design for the par threes at holes 15 and 16 endures to the present day.
Balmore Golf Club
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In 1900, Vardon embarked on a year-long tour of the US and Canada to promote AG Spalding's new “Vardon Flyer" golf ball. The Open Champion quickly become golf’s first international celebrity.
Vardon was born in Jersey, the son of an English gardener (Philip George Vardon) and a French mother (Elizabeth Augustine Bouchard), into a family of six boys and two girls. Both he and his younger brother Tom spent most of their summer holidays caddying on the local links.
Overall rating
3.5
Overall rating
3.5
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