Doug Sewell obit

Tributes paid to the late Douglas Sewell

 

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Tributes have been paid to Douglas Sewell, winner of the inaugural PGA Professional Championship and member of the first Great Britain and Ireland PGA Cup team, who has passed away at the age of 87.

Sewell, who was granted Honorary Life Membership of The PGA in 1994, enjoyed a successful career as an amateur before turning professional.

He represented Great Britain & Ireland in the Walker Cup in 1957 and 1959 as well as the Eisenhower Trophy a year later. In the latter event’s individual competition he was runner up to the legendary Jack Nicklaus.

Sewell won the Brabazon Trophy in 1957 and followed that with victory in the English Amateur Championship a year later. He then repeated the sequence in the subsequent two years.

His first role after becoming a professional in 1961 was as an Assistant to Tom Haliburton at the Wentworth Club. He remained there for six years before succeeding four time Ryder Cup player Percy Alliss as head PGA Professional at Ferndown in Dorset.

Sewell’s best achievement as a professional came in the Martini International at Conwy Golf Club, Wales, in 1970, when he tied for first place with Australia’s Peter Thomson. In doing so he joined a list of winners that includes Sir Nick Faldo, Greg Norman and Seve Ballesteros.