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    Arnaud Massy: A Frenchman with the soul of a Scot

    He was the first non-Briton to win the Open Championship, the only Continental European to get his hands on the Claret Jug and win a major until Seve Ballesteros in 1979. Arnaud Massy was born July 6, 1877 in Biarritz, France, son of Bernard Massy a sheep farmer and his wife, Marie Lauga.  On leaving school Arnaud was employed as a sardine fisherman and from the age of fourteen caddied at Biarritz, for mostly English visitors to the Basque region. Massy was taught the rudimentary skills of club making by sixteen year old Willie Tucker when he was assistant to Willie Dunn at Biarritz.  (William H. Tucker Sr. was a…

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