WHERE “BOGEY” WAS BORN
DEATH OF ORIGINATOR. “I wonder bow many golfers—l am not one—know that the originator of Colonel Bogey was Dr. Thomas Brcwne, R.N., inspector-general of hospitals and fleets, who has just died at Great Yarmouth at the age of 84,” writes Peter Simple in the “Morning Post.” “It was in 1892 that the gallant 'Colonel’ was born. Dr. Browne w r as playing at the United Services Club at Alverstoke and told one of the members of the idea. The other members at once said, ‘Bogey must have rank. He shall be Colonel Bogey.’ And he was. To-day the term is worldknown. Its author, by the way, was the first man to introduce golf to Yarmouth. That was in 1882.”
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 168, 13 April 1926, Page 6
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