Manfred Schotten Antiques

VINTAGE GOLF PHOTOGRAPH OF F.G. TAIT. (1909 Scotland)

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A good British Law, Fire insurance, advertising board with a photo of the late Lieut F.G.Tait in full swing from behind mounted onto a letterpress board and framed. The picture is a calendar for 1909 with six months of the year on either side of the photo. The original photo was taken by R.Wood Hawks of Tait in the 2nd round of the Amateur Championship at St Andrews in 1895, whilst the picture on the board is a collotype enlargement by T. & R. Annan & Sons.

Frederick Guthrie (1870 – 1900) was born in Edinburgh and was the third son of Peter Guthrie Tait, a physicist and keen golfer(he wrote a classic paper on the trajectory of golf balls in 1896). Tait went to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and is credited with introducing the game of golf there. He joined the 2nd battalion, the Leinster regiment (109th foot) and then the 2nd battalion, Black Watch.
Tait was a very good golfer and a long hitter of the ball. On the 11th of January 1893, at The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, Tait hit a golf ball 250 yards, the frozen ground then enabled the ball to roll on further and eventually come to rest 341 yards from the tee. Tait was twice a winner of The Amateur Championship in 1896 and 1998, finished third twice in The Open Championship in 1896 and 1897 and was leading amateur in the same competition on six occasions.
Tait gave up golf when he volunteered to serve in the army and was wounded at Magersfontein on 19th December 1899 and then killed in action at Koodoosberg during the Second Boer War.

gbp 580.00 (Pound Sterling)