Harry Bradshaw (golfer)

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Harry Bradshaw (born 9 October 1913) was a leading Irish professional golfer of the 1940s and 1950s.

Bradshaw was born in Delgany, Wicklow. He was a ten-time Irish professional champion between 1941 and 1957, Irish Open champion in 1947 and 1949, and (with Christy O'Connor) helped Ireland win the Canada Cup in Mexico in 1958, finishing second in the individual section of the event despite suffering nosebleeds due to the altitude.

He was twice British Masters champion, in 1953 and 1955, but in 1949, was the loser in The Open Championship following a playoff against Bobby Locke at Royal St.George's, after an extraordinary incident in the second round when his drive at the 5th hole came to rest against broken glass from a beer bottle on the fairway. Rather than taking a drop (to which he would probably have been entitled) Bradshaw elected to play the ball as it lay, but was only able to move it slightly forward, dropping the shot that (arguably) went on to cost him his victory.^[1]