The Lucifer Golfing Society, Empire Trophy 1936, modelled as a two-handled prize cup with rampant lion handles, the slightly domed lid with a figure of a satanic golfer smoking a pipe and holding a golf club in his right hand, on an ebonised and silver mounted plinth, inscribed Lucifer Golfing Society, Empire Trophy, 1936, 10¾in (27.5cms) high overall; and a printed menu for the Lucifer Golfing Society at The Savoy Hotel London, signed in pencil by the participants (2)

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The Lucifer Golfing Society, Empire Trophy 1936, modelled as a two-handled prize cup with rampant lion handles, the slightly domed lid with a figure of a satanic golfer smoking a pipe and holding a golf club in his right hand, on an ebonised and silver mounted plinth, inscribed Lucifer Golfing Society, Empire Trophy, 1936, 10¾in (27.5cms) high overall; and a printed menu for the Lucifer Golfing Society at The Savoy Hotel London, signed in pencil by the participants (2)

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Locke visited Britain thanks to a sponsorship from Norman Stephen Erleigh, a leading Johannesburgh financier, after competing in the Amateur at St. Andrews and then The Open at Hoylake, he competed in the Lucifer Competition and won the final at Walton Heath with a score over thirty six holes of three up.

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