Long-serving PGA club pro Finlay Morrison 

(101) funeral in Edinburgh tomorrow at 3pm

Finlay Morrison, a long standing PGA clun professional, died at the weekend.  He was in his 101st year.

The funeral will take place at Greyfriars Church on George IV Bridge in Edinburgh tomorrow (Thursday 27 August) at 3pm.

 (Post code for SAT NAV drivers -  EH1 2QQ).

Finlay was honoured by the PGA with a lifetime achievement award in 2009 when he was 95

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Finlay Morrison, pictured in 2009 with PGA in Scotland chairman Alan White, when he was given a lifetime  achievement award

Morrison, a native of Harris, moved to Burntisland as a three-year-old in 1917, and after RAF service during World War II he Second World he became greenkeeper/pro at St Michaels, near Leuchars.
He subsequently held posts at Glamorganshire GC, Deeside, Braid Hills and Bruntsfield Links.

"I played in three Opens, I think, and yes, I'm probably the only Gaelic-speaking pro to have done that," Morrison told an interviewer on one occasion. "Unfortunately, I didn't qualify in any of them. In those days, you could just enter and play."

His principal achievement as a player was finishing runner-up to Dennis Smalldon in the Welsh Championship in 1956 at Denby.

On his retirement in the late 1980s, he designed a nine-hole course at Scarista, on Harris. "There had been a James Braid course there but I couldn't resurrect his design because there'd been some house-building done on the land," added Morrison.

Colin Farquharson writes: "I knew Finlay Morrison through being a member at Deeside Golf Club where he was the popular  professional in the 1960s and 70s.
I had the off lesson from him. He said I had "fast hands." I never quite worked out if that was a good or a bad thing.
Finlay was a first-class businessman as a club pro. He would attract golfers from all over Aberdeen when they wanted to trade in their old clubs for new ones. They knew that they would get the best deal available from Finlay.