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George Low(E) George Lowe Sr. (1856-1934) and George Lowe Jr. (1890-1974) Once more the Carnoustie connection with Australia shows up in this family of professional golfers, with Australian golf and its courses the beneficiaries. George Lowe Sr. was a Scottish professional, best known for his service at Royal Lytham and St. Annes Golf Club, both as a professional/greenkeeper and a course designer. In this essay we examine his career, with a special interest in that of his son, George Lowe Jr., who emigrated to Australia and provided distinguished service to the game as a professional, course builder and course designer. George Low(e) (Senior) Royal Liverpool did not want to lose In 1901 Lowe was one of the George Low was born on the 10th him, and a member, Mr Gibson Sinclair founders of the St. Anne’s Old Links September 1856 in the small Angus wrote to the Club encouraging them Golf Club and in 1905 he left Lytham hamlet of Carmyllie (the town where to keep Lowe, saying “all practicable and St. Annes after 17 years and was Dan Soutar would later be born), the means should be taken by the Club appointed the Old Links Club’s unpaid son of George (a stone quarrier) and to retain Lowe, he being one of the professional and greenkeeper with a Susan Low. Along with his parents and best club makers in the Kingdom”. workshop for 1/- a year rental. The Old brothers, William, David and James, Morris was willing to take George into Links Club leased the original Lytham George moved to Carnoustie, Angus partnership with him, but the lure of and St. Anne’s Golf Club site until in 1864, where they all came under the his own command proved too great relocating to its new site on a course spell of golf, with George undertaking and he took up his new position in which George designed. He left the an apprenticeship in clubmaking with July that year. Old Links Club in August 1911 and Frank Bell at the Barry Links. George then operated from a workshop he recalled that he was still an apprentice Lytham times set up in St. Annes as an unattached with Bell when Old Tom Morris came Lowe was paid 15/- per week by professional golf club manufacturer, to Carnoustie to extend the ten hole Lytham and St. Annes, along with the course designer and teacher. The shop course into 18 holes. Low was not use of a free workshop and the title was near the Lytham and St. Annes impressed with the short length of a ‘Custodian of the Links’. At Lytham, course and was still there in the 1980’s, number of the holes Old Tom left them George helped organize the first although by this time it was being with, describing them disparagingly Professional Tournament held at the used as a fish and chip shop. Courtesy of Alan Lowe as “a drive and a kick”. course in 1890, with total prizemoney of £55 and £10 for the winner. The Clubmaking and teaching Top: a young George According to George himself, he purse attracted a splendid field, As a clubmaker, George Lowe is Lowe Sr. in action in 1888. left Carnoustie for Leven after his including Old Tom Morris, Willie Fernie, credited with developing a matched Above: A nattily dressed apprenticeship and then, at the age Willie Park, Jack Morris and Archie set of irons that he patented in Britain George Lowe Jr. swings of 21, obtained the post as assistant Simpson, with Fernie the winner of in 1896 and in the USA in 1899. There for the camera. professional to ‘Jack’ Morris, the the 36 hole event - Lowe finished a were four different irons all sharing a nephew of Old Tom, at the Royal creditable fourth, making good use uniform head size. The British patent Liverpool Golf Club’s Hoylake course. of his home ground advantage. Lowe was: “Patent No. 16,560 Lowe, G. Around this time he altered the spelling and his wife extended great hospitality Idea for a matched set of irons each of his surname from Low to a more to the visitors and looked after 3 inches by 13/8” by 5/8” across the anglicised Lowe - perhaps to distance their every need. sole, the clubs being named as himself from the amateur John L Low ordinary irons, lofting irons or mashies of St. Andrews or the pioneer American Whilst not a champion golfer, George and the face being flat all through, golfer George Low. He remained at represented Scotland in the first similar to the ‘Fairlie Club’.” Hoylake as Morris’ principal clubmaker international match played against until 1888 whereupon he was offered England, and played in four Open George taught the brothers Tom and the post of ‘custodian of the links’ at Championships, with his best finish Harry Vardon to make clubs and his the Lytham and St. Annes Golf Club. a tie for sixth in the 1882 Open at early invoices were headed “Golf Club St. Andrews. He promoted himself and ball maker”. At one time, George on his invoices as “Winner of Six First employed up to five men in his Professional Prizes”, but it was as a clubmaking workshop. clubmaker, teacher and golf course architect that he really left his mark. 28 GOLF ARCHITECTURE f Historical Museum Courtesy of Queensclif His obituary notice credits him with Far left: Photograph of the participants having made more than 25,000 golf at the First Professional Tournament clubs over his career. They each held at Lytham and St. Annes on 8th carried a wrapper when sold, that November 1890: back row from left, stated: “A genuine George Lowe Club, George Lowe (Lytham), Alex Herd as used by their Royal Highnesses, (Huddersfield), Jack Morris (Hoylake), the Duchesses of Fife and Argyll, The Willie Campbell (Musselburgh) and Hugh Hon. AJ Balfour (the Prime Minister) Kirkaldy (St. Andrews); front row, Willie and others.” Park (Musselburgh), Andrew Kirkaldy (St. Andrews), Tom Morris (St. Andrews), Son Stewart Lowe later reflected that Willie Fernie (Troon) and Archie Simpson these endorsements were of little value (Carnoustie). Above: George Lowe Sr. as he reckoned these three “couldn’t teaching at Scotsman’s Flat in hit a decent shot between them.” Queenscliff. Other images: George Lowe The ‘others’ no doubt included Talbot Sr.’s invoice header from Lytham and de Vere Clifton, the local Lytham squire St. Annes, and three of George Lowe’s and world renowned South American ‘Anti-Shank Uniform Irons’ made to his explorer to whom George was personal patented design - from left is a ‘Niblick’, professional and teacher. The local an ‘Iron’ and a ‘Cleek’. These were newspaper reported that, following plated to prevent them from rusting Clifton’s return from his world travels and described as ‘Hawkins - Never to take up residence at Lytham Hall in Rust’ and date from c.1900. 1907, George Lowe had been seen strolling about the park, not with a gun, The Manchester Golfer referred to his but with a golf club, as he was busy Designs prolific design work in 1911, stating designing a private course for the As a golf course architect, Nisbet’s Lancaster 1* (1889); Saddleworth; that, “George Lowe… seems to have Squire in the grounds of Lytham Hall. Golf Yearbook of 1907 - The Who’s (Royal) Birkdale (1889); Inglewood - been called in to all of Manchester’s Who (Professionals) - stated that Lowe now Penrith (1890); Ramsey (1891); golf courses at one time or another.” George later recalled that the first ‘…has laid out nearly 100 courses …’, Isle of Man; Studley Royal* (1891); women pupils he taught were at whilst his obituary notice credits him Windermere (1891); Pleasington - At Windermere in the Lake District, Lytham in around 1886, and that with ‘…having designed more than 9 holes (1891); Windermere - 9 holes Lowe’s initial report in early 1891 stated, “the first club carrying bag on 120 courses in England and on the (1891); Hallowes (1892); Morecambe “I beg to report after seeing the ground Carnoustie course was introduced Continent of Europe…’ & Heysham* (1892); Anson* (1893); you propose for a golf course that it by me when on holidays there. I had Seascale - second nine holes (1893); has every chance of being an excellent my first made in Hoylake from a Many courses that George originally Burnley* (1894); Howstrake* (1894), course. I am confident of being able to sail makers shop of sail material.” laid out have been since redesigned Isle of Man; Horwich (1895); Port Erin - lay out an admirable 9 hole course... by others and some have since ceased now Rowany (1895), Isle of Man; Peel From what I saw in our short survey I to exist. Known designs by George (1895), Isle of Man; Morecambe & believe that I could play the nine holes Lowe include: Hesketh (1885); (Royal) Lancaster* (1901); St. Anne’s Old Links as the ground is at present and not Lytham & St. Anne’s, (1896), St Annes (1901), St. Annes on Sea; Lancaster lose a ball.” Later in that year the on Sea;Rochdale (1888), Lancashire; 2* (1905) [*no longer exists]. original nine holes were completed and play started. GOLF ARCHITECTURE 29 George Jr., Annie, Allan Ramsey, Amy Journal of 18th July 1930. In it he wrote: the Colac Golf Club in western Victoria, Peel and Robert Ivan. Daughter Amy “Teaching was always my strong point, as he had been chosen as its new rarely admitted to her middle name, however, and in this I always had a professional. Not long after he left and George’s descendents only large measure of success.
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