Harry Vardon, Jersey’s golfing great
2020 marks the 150th birth anniversary of world-renowned golfer, Harry Vardon, who won the British Open Championship in 1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1911 and then in 1914, at the age of 44. He also won the US Open Championship in 1900.
Vardon was born in Jersey on 9 May 1870. He became an apprentice gardener aged thirteen and started to take an interest in golf when a course was built nearby. Vardon didn’t receive any professional lessons but, in his
