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'In the 1930s Rountree came to refer to strong golfers as ‘Tigers’ and their weak counterparts as ‘Rabbits’ (he himself was a Tiger, with a low handicap). To show that he wasn’t biased against weak golfers at his golf club, the West Middlesex, he instituted a Rabbits Trophy in 1936 for members, such as his daughter, whose handicaps were 18 or higher. So this caricature is a send up of a golfer who would like to think he is, or was, a strong player, from his picture hanging on the wall, but never really made it.'
Michael Pirie
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