Rare Sussex golf clubs sold in the USA

Three rare antique golf clubs invented by and named after the great great uncle of a Laughton man and former Wealden councillor have been sold for Â£2,104 at an auction in America.

By The Newsroom

Published 8th Oct 2007, 18:35 BST

Updated 7th Jun 2018, 22:43 BST

The clubs were all designed around 100 years ago by Major Gilbert Legh,whose great great nephew, Lord Newton, 57, lives at Laughton Park Farm, Laughton and who was a Wealden district councillor for 12 years from 1987 to 1999.

The clubs were part of a spectacular collection of around 600 antique golf clubs sold by American enthusiast Jeffery B Ellis for more than 1million - or 1,072,063 to be precise - at the two-day auction at Sotheby's in New York last week.

A fourth club designed by Major Legh,younger son of the first Lord Newton,failed to sell.

The most valuable of the three Legh clubs which did sell was a Legh's Patent integral face/sole/hosel putter ,made in or around 1906,which sold for 1,052.

Sir Piers Legh - Gilbert Legh's nephew and great uncle of the Laughton-based Lord Newton - was Master of the Household to King George VI.