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![]() Clubmakers Andrew Dickson Edinburgh Quite funny to read, when a longnosed putter attributed to Andrew Dickson of Leith, sold for £90,000 at Sotheby’s in New York, that as a boy, described in the Scots Magazine of 1792, he had to carry the clubs then scamper as a fore-caddie in front of James VII (Duke of York, James II of Great Britain) when he played on Leith Links in 1681-2. The Dickson family’s connection with golf goes back to the early 17th century with a complaint to the Privy Council in 1619 identifying Thomas Dickson and William Dickson as golf ball makers. The 1743 poem The Goff by Thomas Mathison describes an opponent’s club, ‘the work of Dickson who in Leitha dwells and in the art of making clubs excels’ and that the ash-shafted club was ‘pond’rous with lead and fac’d with horn the head’.
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