Two old friends at Hunstanton GC attending the 1951 English Men's Amateur Championship - James Sherlock, professional and Bernard Darwin, 'our golf correspondent' for The Times. #golf history #eg100 #golf

Willie Fernie. Champion golfer in 1883. Between 1879-1899, he played in 20 Open Championships and finished in the top 10 on 17 occasions. Has there been any others more consistent than that over two decades? #golf #golf history #royaltroongc #openchampionship

Rountree on Gullane Hill. #golfhistory #golfart #gullane #bernarddarwin

Rountree's stunning watercolour of the Old Course with the auld grey toon in the background. #golf #standrews #golf art #bernarddarwin #golf history

More Rountree. Stoke Poges, half a century before Goldfinger lost to Bond by playing a Slazenger 7 instead of a Slazenger 1 on the last hole. 😃 #golfhistory #golfart #JamesBond #OO7 #bernarddarwin #harrycolt

A recently uncovered photograph of the London Press Golfing Society pre-WW1 with Bernard Darwin middle row centre and Harry Rountree standing far right. Only existing image with both? Also includes Emsley Carr, George Riddle and A C M Croome. #golfhistory #darwin

More Rountree art. The result of a bad slice at the sixth at Mildenhall (aka Royal Worlington & Newmarket GC). Almost certainly it is Darwin with the problem in the trees. #golfart #darwin #golfhistory

A stunning example of Rountree's watercolours: Mr Woolley driving from the 'Pulpit' tee at Sandwell Park. #golfart #darwin #golfhistory

One of the greatest books in the pantheon of golf history. Darwin's first major works in 1910. Stunningly illustrated by Harry Rountree (1st edition with name mis-spelt Rowntree on cover). #golfhistory #darwin #britishgolfcourses

C B Macdonald, young and old Tom Morris, the great Horace, Harry Colt, Bernard Darwin, John Low... he knew them all very well. Even though he was quite mad, he was well-liked. #golfhistory #standrews

And none of this would have happened had he not, just and no more, got off the train at Leuchars before it was destroyed in the Tay Bridge Disaster in 1879. Linskill lived a charmed life... and lived it to the full. Definitely ample material for a film. 😀

Linskill was also a lifelong friend of the great C B Macdonald, the father of American golf. #golf #golf history

An R&A member in the 1870s until his death in 1929. Would only play with a gutta percha ball.

Horace Hutchinson, no less, said that he was one of the best putters he had seen. But otherwise not that great.

Linskill on ghosts... in St Andrews

There really should be a movie made about one of the most eccentric golfers in history - W T Linskill. #golf #golf history #standrewsghoststories #cambridgegolf #guttaperchagolf

England Golf Hall of Famer, Bridget Jackson, won the English Ladies Championship at Hunstanton in 1956. Still going strong. #eg100 #hunstantongolfclub #golfhistory #womensgolf

Big dinner last night at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, the precise location where the English Golf Union was formed exactly 100 years ago. #EG100