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Whitton, Ivo, (1893-1967)

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Golf : with special high-speed photographs and slow motion cinema slips / by Ivo Whitton. (Melbourne : Herald and Weekly Times, [1930?])

Ivo Whitton won the Australian Open five times between 1912 and 1931. His memory survives in his book, hugely popular among Australian golfers between the wars, and in two trophies, the Victorian Golfing Association’s Ivo Whitton Trophy, awarded annually to the best amateur, and the Royal Melbourne Golf Club’s Ivo Whitton Cup.

The background to the golfing books is a painted advertisement for “Champion shirts”, which would have been displayed in men’s clothes shops in the 1920s and 1930s, showing two men playing golf in shirts, ties and hats, though not in Ivo Whitton’s plus-fours

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