22 of the strangest things in golf

2. You cruise, you lose

In the 1937 Amateur Championship, Brigadier-General Critchley, arriving at Southampton from New York on the Queen Mary, which had been delayed by fog, flew by specially chartered aeroplane to Sandwich. He circled over the clubhouse so officials knew he was nearly there but arrived six minutes late and his name was struck out.

At the same championship, a player from Burma, who had travelled across the Pacific and North America and was also on the Queen Mary, travelled from Southampton by car and arrived four hours after his starting time to find that his name had also been struck out.

Next up… a horrendous aviation accident…