Bert was 15th in the 1953 Irish Open Championship with a score of
290.
The Gadd brothers had the talent to play on a bigger stage and would
have done so had they lived in more peaceful times.
Charles won the Northern Professional Championship and twenty-five
Alliance titles before his life was tragically cut short.
Bert’s achievements are remarkable by any standards. To win a
match-play tournament nine years running, as he did in the
Northumberland and Durham Victory Challenge Cup is quite incredible.
 Equally impressive was the winning of the Alliance Professional
Aggregate Cup in seven consecutive seasons, a feat which can seldom
have been achieved anywhere and he was nearly a ‘senior’ when he
took the trophy for the last time. The following year he had left
the North East. Altogether he won thirty-three post-war tournaments.
The Bishop Auckland Centenary book said that he had “earned a
reputation as one of the finest club professionals ever to play in
the region”
(It was known in the North East that Bert had two, possibly three,
albatrosses in tournament play – a rare bird indeed) |
