Interested bystanders observe James Braid taking part in a tournament at Walton Heath Golf Club, where he was the professional, in October 1913
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The years between 1894 and 1914 were a time when three British players took the golfing world by storm. James Braid, John Henry (JH) Taylor and Harry Vardon between them won 16 out of a total of 21 Open Championships that were staged during that period. And, on the five occasions when another victor emerged, it was one of the Triumvirate who finished second. Their dominance both attracted spectators in their tens of thousands and also summed up the seemingly imperishable confidence of a nation at the zenith of its global influence.