James Martin Barnes was an English golfer and a leading figure in the early years of professional golf in the United States. He is one of three native Britons to win three different modern major professional championships.

Thomas Dickson Armour was a Scottish-American professional golfer. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot. He was the winner of three of golf's major championships: 1927 U.S. Open, 1930 PGA, and 1931 Open Championship. Armour popularized the term yips, the colloquial term for a sudden and unexplained loss of skills in experienced athletes.