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A M Copland
Aberdeen/Johannesburg

Born in Fraserburgh in 1893, Anthony Morrice Copland served his apprenticeship as a clubmaker with Marling and Smith, first at Bieldside, then at Balgownie before working in their Bridge Street shop in Aberdeen. He was a scratch golfer at the Bon Accord club.

He left for South Africa in March 1914 to be an assistant to J M Nogan at the Metropolitan club. A later report puts him at the Rondebosch club in Cape Town at the start of the First World War but, in any event, he joined Botha’s army and fought in the German Southwest Africa (Namibia) campaign, twice being wounded in the legs.

In 1915 he was appointed professional to the Houghton Estate Golf Course at the Orange Grove Hotel in Johannesburg. When the Houghton Club moved to its current location in 1926 he designed the new course.

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