Henry James Whigham (December 24, 1869 – March 17, 1954) was a Scottish writer and amateur golfer. Whigham was born in Tarbolton, Scotland, to one of the more prominent families of British society. He graduated from from Queen's College in 1893 where he was captain of the school's golf team the previous year. Following graduation, he came to America in the summer of 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition to demonstrate how golf should be played.

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  • Henry James Whigham (December 24, 1869 – March 17, 1954) was a Scottish writer and amateur golfer. Whigham was born in Tarbolton, Scotland, to one of the more prominent families of British society. He graduated from from Queen's College in 1893 where he was captain of the school's golf team the previous year. Following graduation, he came to America in the summer of 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition to demonstrate how golf should be played. Whigham worked for the Chicago Tribune from 1895 to 1897 as a drama critic. He served as an instructor of English and economics at Lake Forest College in 1895, and as a guest lecturer at a variety of Midwestern universities. He left the Chicago area in 1898 and spent the next seven years as a war correspondent. During his time in Chicago, Whigham assisted Charles B. Macdonald, Herbert James Tweedie, and Robert and James Foulis in designing the original nine holes at the Onwentsia Club, at which he was later a member. Also during this time he won the second and third playings of the U.S. Amateur Championship (1896 and 1897). Following his first amateur win, he authored a golf instruction book, "How to Play Golf", published by Herbert S. Stone & Co. in 1897. The book is dedicated to his good friend, Charles B. Macdonald, who won the first U.S. Amateur. It was the first golf instruction book to use action photographs. He would go on to become son-in-law Macdonald. Whigham authored several more books, including "The Persian Problem", published in 1903, and "Manchuria and Korea" in 1904 and in 1936 "The New Deal: English and American. " Whigham died in Southampton, New York.
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  • Henry James Whigham (December 24, 1869 – March 17, 1954) was a Scottish writer and amateur golfer. Whigham was born in Tarbolton, Scotland, to one of the more prominent families of British society. He graduated from from Queen's College in 1893 where he was captain of the school's golf team the previous year. Following graduation, he came to America in the summer of 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition to demonstrate how golf should be played.
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  • H. J. Whigham
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