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Ted Ray

Ted Ray was a huge, lumbering man who had a pipe permanently clenched between his teeth and a trilby hat firmly stuck on his head. Neither moved as he swung ferociously at the ball, his swing described as like the “lurching charge of a Cape buffalo”.

Attack was all he knew. Once asked how to gain greater distance, his answer was a simple: “Hit it a bloody sight harder.”

He grew up in the same village, Grouville, on Jersey as Harry Vardon and eventually followed him into the professional life in England, succeeding Vardon as the pro at Ganton. Later he spent many years at Oxhey. In Hertfordshire. He was a high finisher in The Open for years but sneaking a win while the Great Triumvirate were at the top of their game was never easy.

His victory came in 1912 at Muirfield, which had been lengthened to a massive 6,425 yards. Ray became the first Champion to lead outright after every round since The Open had been extended to 72 holes. Rory McIlroy became the seventh to do so in 2014.

Ray led by one from George Duncan after an opening 71, had a 73 t

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Ted Ray: The Forgotten Man of Golf

Bill Williams is a retired Englishman residing in Florida. He is a qualified financial accountant who ran a global IT and Business Consulting company for many years. In early life he played soccer at a high level in England and was associated with three professional clubs, later, a number of semi-professional teams. After moving to the Sunshine State, his passion became golf, playing, watching and subsequently writing about the game, moreover the history of golf. He is, by his own words, a student of golf history. Since retiring from the world of business and commerce, which took him to many regions of the globe, his pursuits include an avid interest in all sports, particularly golf. When not playing golf or attending professional tournaments, his time is taken up with reading and researching from his extensive library of biographys and reference books. This latest work is Bills third published book, and he plans several other projects, all golf related.

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The Other Ted Ray

Mention the name Ted Ray and those in the United Kingdom of a certain age and a good memory will frown and go silent for a few seconds while they rack their brains. Wasn’t he a comedian? Did he have a radio programme called “Ray’s a Laugh?” Was he in the “Gang Show” with Bud Flanagan or the “Goon Show” with Peter Sellers, Michael Bentine, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan? And wasn’t he host of a Saturday evening variety show on television and perhaps top of the bill at the London Palladium?

He was indeed most of those things. He was a high-end comedian who was popular in the early days of television in the UK, the 1950s and early ’60s. He had a large nose, a barking laugh, a machine-gun delivery and an irrepressible character. One son, Andrew, was an actor and another son, Robin, made a name for himself in a game on television in which the panel had to guess the title of a piece of music based on watching a pianist’s hands.

But that’s not the Ted Ray we are talking about here. We are talking golfers not comedians though sometimes golfers are comedians just as