“BOGEY” IN GOLF.
—<► “I wonder how many golfers—l am not one —know that the originator of Colonel Bogey was Dr. Thomas Browne It.N. Inspector-Genera] of Hospitals and Fleets, who has just died at Great Yarmouth at the age of 84 years asks Peter Simple in the London Morning Post. “It was in 1592 that the gallant ‘Colonel’’ was born. Dr. Browne was playing at the United Service Club at Alverstoke, and told one of the members of his idea. The other member agreed at once, saying: ‘Bogey must have rank. He shall be Colonel I Bogey.’ And he was. To-day the term ( is well known. Its author, by the way. ‘ was the first man to introduce golf to Yarmouth. That mas in 1582.”
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Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16798, 28 May 1926, Page 3
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