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The famous Irish amateur John Burke from Lahinch, a Walker Cup player, Irish International and Irish Amateur champion, used George’s articles as a textbook. He had a favourite saying taken from the articles:

“Good, better best, and you should never rest,
until your good is better and your better best”

George left Roehampton in 1934 to become pro at Malden in Surrey. He returned to Roehampton after the war in 1946 and retired ten years later on medical grounds; over forty years after he first joined the club, with gaps for his five years service in the Great War and the twelve years he spent at Malden. The Roehampton club’s centenary history paid the following tribute:

“He had been extremely popular, a fine golfer and renowned in the club for his integrity, generosity and kindness (he would often, for instance, give lady members on the first tee a new ball ‘for luck’)”.













 

His successor as pro was Ryder Club player, Syd Scott, who served the club for twenty-two years and was then succeeded by his son Alan.
 

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