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Dunlop Metropolitan Tournament

In the Yorkshire Evening News £750 tournament at the Leeds Golf Club, Cobble Hall my 66 in the stroke-play section was described by Golf Illustrated as the “perfect round”. I went out in 34, including a run of three consecutive threes and, despite taking four at the tree-lined 15th - ‘Tribulation Hill’, one of the most difficult par-3s in golf, I came back in 32 to set a new course record.

In the subsequent match play I lost to Ryder Cup player Bill Cox in the first round. The final was between Alf Perry and Vernon Greenhalgh of the Manchester club - Prestwich and Alf’s fine form continued with an 8&6 victory, to make it three wins in what was probably his best year - apart from 1935 of course.

[Leeds Golf Club, Cobble Hall, was the venue for the first Leeds Cup in 1902, won by Harry Vardon]

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