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Ewan Mackay is a quiet, trusting man with a lifelong passion for golf.

Growing up in the 1950s in Angus, a windsswept county on Scotland's east coast, he found the sport

a perfect outlet, a shared activity that reduced the pressures of socialising. Later, as an

adult, golfing allowed him to rub shoulders with wealthy farmers who became useful contacts

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