The last man to win The Open at Royal Portrush, Faulkner dressed in bold, brash colours, boasting of his abilities in a fashion deemed disruptive for the times. So he added the postscript Open champion 1951, in an outrageous flourish that won him few friends on the links. “I asked him for a pen, I put ‘Max Faulkner, Open Champion 1951’, and then looked at it before giving it back,” said Faulkner. “As I walked to the tee it kept appearing in front of me: ‘Open champion 1951’. His victory frustrated the establishment, but stood as the only Open victory for a Brit between Henry Cotton in 1948 and Tony Jacklin in 1969.

Source: Irish Examiner July 16, 2019 13:07 UTC