President's Putter

President's Putter is an annual golf competition contested between Oxford and Cambridge universities. [ cite web |last=Ashdown |first=David |title=Golf: President's Putter, an annual golf competition |publisher="The Independent" |date=2004-01-10 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040110/ai_n9684132 |accessdate=2008-09-09 ] The event is held every January at the Rye Golf Club in Rye, East Sussex with the first tournament held in 1920. Those eligible to play are current and former alumni of the universities thus the golfers are usually amateurs and ages may vary between 20 and 70 years. The tournament is played by scratch match play and the winner receives a silver medal in exchange for their winning ball. [ cite web |title=The President’s Putter |publisher=Rye Golf Club |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20061021171954/http://www.ryegolfclub.co.uk/putter/putter.html |accessdate=2008-09-09 ] Past winners include five time tournament winner Roger Wethered, Cyril Tolley and Charlie Rotheroe. cite web |title=Winners |publisher=Rye Golf Club|url=http://www.ryegolfclub.co.uk/putter/winners.html |accessdate=2008-09-09 ] Rotheroe won his third tournament in 2008. [ cite web |last=Randall |first=Charles |title=Charlie Rotheroe wins third President's Putter |publisher="The Telegraph" |date=2008-01-07 |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/2288230/Charlie-Rotheroe-wins-third-Presidents-Putter.html |accessdate=2008-09-09 ]

The President's Putter itself was first given to the Oxford and Cambridge Golfing Society by John Low and it originally belonged to Hugh Kirkaldy. When the putter wore out it was replaced with another belonging to Laurie Auchterlonie. The current putter was brought into use in 1983 and was made by Open Championship winner Willie Park, Snr..

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* [http://www.ryegolfclub.co.uk/ Rye Golf Club website]