IAN Paul’s beautifully-crafted tribute to your paper’s late golf correspondent Raymond Jacobs (Herald Obituaries, December 6) revealed something few readers would have known about him. The retail trade’s loss was surely journalism’s gain when Raymond Jacobs left his job at a Montreal clothing store to begin a life-long round of golf writing back in Scotland, for the then Glasgow Herald.
Golfing colleagues of Raymond’s will recall that he supplied prizes for The Herald’s annual golf outing, brought back every year in bulk from The Masters at Augusta, played a few weeks previously. I was sometimes a guest and as the prizes were handed out, the golfing gear and Masters merchandise was so numerous I wondered if Raymond had travelled back by ocean liner to avoid excess baggage charges.
Alan Mackay,
Auchendoune,
Doune Road,
Dunblane.
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