FINE GOLF RECORD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22971, 24 February 1938, Page 20

FINE GOLF RECORD

LATE BRITISH VETERAN The vast army of middle-aged and elderly golfers lost their hero in th«> death of tho Hon. Michael Scott recently, snvs a Melbourne writer. Scott, who was aged 60 years, dropped dead after landing a seven-foot sailfish in Florida. Ho was a life member of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. He came to Australia in 1900, and for the next 10 years was without doubt the most famous golfer in Australia. He won the open championship in 1904 and 1907, and was national amateur champion on four occasions. Ho had six Victorian and two New South Wales amateur -titles to his credit. Ho returned to England in 1911, and his golfing career was interrupted by the Great War, in which ho served with distinction. After the war he won many important events in Britain and on the Continent, but it was not until 1933, when at the age of 55, he scored hia greatest triumph by winning the British Amateur championship. By this victory he tichieved world-wide fame. In the same year he captained the British Walker Cup team, and in 1934 visited Australia and New Zealand, after an absence of 23 af » captain of the British team of amateurs which competed in the Melbourne Centenary championship.