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WHAT an extraordinary nation we are. For years American golfers " farmed" our Open Championship, and humiliated us in other tournaments. Then came Henry Cotton, who, purely as a result of his own application and hard work in the teeth of difficulties, stopped the rot and earned for himself the title of the world's best golfer. Now we cannot let him alone. He is badgered, sneered at and subjected to a campaign of whispering; all because he will not play a match with a young man named Locke, who has not earned his spurs.
Let us leave Cotton alone, otherwise he might decide to leave us alone, and English golf would be leaderless once more; for Henry has great qualities of leadership and he is the rock on which British golf—both amateur and professional—is being rebuilt. The big men know this; it is the petty whimperers with their snivelling jealousies that are trying to undermine the rock. Shut them up and salute Henry Cotton.




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