The golfing Jacobite - how golf saved a surgeon's neck
In a quiet corner of a park of Leith Links, in Edinburgh, is a statue of John Rattray; Jacobite and golfing legend.
Rattray was an early surgeon, took part in the 1745 Jacobite uprising, and signed the first official rules of golf.
But how did golf save him from the hangman's noose?
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