Wentworth's West Course is often referred to as the "Burma Road."
This name goes back to World War II when German PoWs were used to clear the overgrown fairways which had been allowed to overgrow to prevent enemy planes from landing on them.
The British officer in charge of the clearance work remarked once that the task was like clearing the "Burma Road" -- a task that around 200,000 Chinese labourers set about doing whilst trying to cut a 700-mile (1,127km) inland road from Kunming in China to Lashio in Burma, now Myanmar.
As we now witness players pick up millions, let's remember that back in 1966 when England won the World Cup and I was a small boy with aspirations of becoming a golfer, I travelled to Wentworth to take in "The Daks" which was a golf tournament in England, part of the circuit that preceded the European Tour (now the DP World Tour].
I watched Hugh Boyle pick up £1,000 (about 42,000 baht now) for his 72-73-71-70 rounds, the best from his past 12 appearances in the tournament, whereby he made the cut only four times.
Boyle was born in Ireland and got into golf through caddying.
He was 29 years old before he really gained national notice for tournament golf.
That happened at the 1965 Senior Service Trophy when Boyle fired a 61, at the time the second-best score recorded in any British pro tournament.
He finished as runner-up to Christy O'Connor, the first of several second-place showings for Boyle over the years on the British and European circuits.
His breakthrough into the winner's circle happened at the Yomiuri International, part of the Far East Circuit, in Japan.
Boyle thus became the first golfer from Britain to win a pro golf tournament in Japan.
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