STORY BEHIND THE PICTURE: LADDIE LUCAS

LADDIE LUCAS | SANDY LODGE GOLF CLUB, HERFORDSHIRE | AUGUST 7, 1954
If you are looking to compile a list of unsung heroes of the pre- WWII amateur game, then there would be few people higher up the pecking order than Percy ‘Laddie’ Lucas.
Lucas was, quite literally, born into golf, having breathed his first breath in the clubhouse at Prince’s Golf Club in Kent in 1915.
Growing up on the Kent links, where his father served as the club secretary – having co-founded the club