# Golf Stories — Character guide

> Key figures in Golf Stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Bradbury Fisher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/bradbury_fisher.md): Bradbury Fisher is a wealthy Long Island golfer whose chief comforts are fine weather, a shrinking handicap, and Vosper, the ducal butler he prizes above all possessions. His fragile contentment is menaced by his visitin
- [Jane Packard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/jane_packard.md): Jane Packard is the woman the Oldest Member fears may slip away from the devoted but dim William Bates, whose proposal he schemes to stage in a sandy waste off the seventh fairway. She is in a strange, restless mood, and
- [Mortimer Sturgis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/mortimer_sturgis.md): Mortimer Sturgis is a devoted golfer who winters at the Hotel Superbe in Saint Brule with ninety-four clubs and a habit of chipping in his bedroom. He has long stipulated that any wife of his must play golf, having once 
- [Rodney Fails](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/rodney_fails.md): Rollo Podmarsh is a large, modest young man who plays golf daily for the fresh air and appetite, scoring over a hundred and twenty while fancying himself skillful. His mother publicly denounces his pipe and catalogues to
- [Chester Meredith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/chester_meredith.md): Chester Meredith is a passionate golfer given to generous warmth of expression, whose face lights with ecstasy at the sight of Felicia Blakeney on the links. Learning that her family includes a sociologist father, a nove
- [Wallace Chesney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/wallace_chesney.md): Wallace Chesney is a keen club member whose good-humored fiancée, Charlotte, joshes him about his bunker play and invents crippled opponents for their handicapping schemes. Earnest beneath the banter, he buys patent club
- [William Bates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/william_bates.md): William Bates belongs to the restless younger generation of the club, the sort of anxious player whose handicap and love life rise and fall together. His particular trouble is the suspicion that his golf is being watched
- [Ferdinand Dibble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/ferdinand_dibble.md): Ferdinand Dibble is a young man of sound physique and hopeless nerves, the sort of player who tops his shots precisely when he most needs to shine. He is desperately in love with Barbara Medway but cannot summon the gall
- [George Mackintosh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/george_mackintosh.md): George Mackintosh moves in the orbit of Vincent Jopp, the superman who approaches golf as a problem of Pure Reason and expects the same ruthless efficiency from everyone around him. George's own game and romantic hopes a
- [Rollo Podmarsh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/rollo_podmarsh.md): Rollo Podmarsh is the last person Mary Kent expects to meet: a Jack Dempsey lookalike whose mother still calls him darling and frets over his health. He plays golf only for the appetite it gives him, until Mary's arrival
- [Archibald Mealing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/archibald_mealing.md): Archibald Mealing is the beloved duffer of the Cape Pleasant Club, a man whose golf blends hockey, Swedish drill, and buck-and-wing dancing, yet whose generosity keeps him in everyone's good graces. In his thirty-first y
- [John Gooch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/john_gooch.md): John Gooch moves through the club's social and competitive life as one of the ordinary golfers whose rounds are forever being disrupted by stronger personalities and stranger wagers. His game and his pride are constantly
- [James Todd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/james_todd.md): James Todd and Peter Willard are inseparable golfing partners whose equal incompetence — debated endlessly by clubhouse experts — binds them tighter than any handicap could. They rise before dawn to play, ring the office
- [Ramsden Waters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/ramsden_waters.md): Ramsden Waters is the sort of golfer who tops his drives and loses his nerve in the presence of Eunice Bray, the girl he adores from a painful distance. When chance hands him her little brother as a playing companion, he
- [Peter Willard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/peter_willard.md): Peter Willard and James Todd are the club's most devoted and least talented pair, bound by a friendship so inevitable it rivals ham and eggs. They play from dawn to dusk, ring the office to skip work, and read golf books
- [Frederick Pilcher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/frederick_pilcher.md): Frederick Pilcher exists in the club's collective memory as a byword for something disreputable — the kind of golfer other men cite when they want to warn against a certain type of behavior. His reputation, whatever its 
- [Vincent Jopp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/vincent_jopp.md): Vincent Jopp corners Woven Textiles for breakfast and decides to conquer golf by lunch, hiring the champion McHoots and committing his every hint to memory. He buys one ball, refuses to believe he might lose it, and atta
- [Eunice Bray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/eunice_bray.md): Eunice Bray occupies the terrace and the shade while Ramsden Waters sweats through the jungle in search of his ball, her serene indifference sharpening his longing. Fond of her little brother but glad to have him off her
- [Mitchell Holmes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/mitchell_holmes.md): Mitchell Holmes moves through the club as a young player still learning how much of golf happens between shots — in glances, silences, and the stories older members tell. His youth puts him at odds with the settled hiera
- [Arthur Jukes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/arthur_jukes.md): Arthur Jukes belongs to that tribe of Wodehouse golfers for whom the real hazard is domestic rather than bunkers. His name surfaces in the club's gossip as a man caught between the demands of a wife and the pull of the c
- [Cuthbert Banks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/cuthbert_banks.md): Cuthbert Banks is the kind of earnest young player whose devotion to golf is matched only by his devotion to an unimpressed beloved. His distinctive clicking swing marks him as a curiosity at the club, where style and st
- [Mrs. Jane Jukes Jopp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/mrs_jane_jukes_jopp.md): Mrs. Jane Jukes Jopp occupies an ambiguous place in the golfing world, where wives are expected to wait in cars rather than stride the fairways. Her marriage and her movements through the club's social orbit create frict
- [Barbara Medway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/barbara_medway.md): A woman who interacts with golfers in social settings.
- [Ralph Bingham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/ralph_bingham.md): A golfer who appears in the background of stories.
- [Agnes Flack](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/agnes_flack.md): A woman who appears in the golf club milieu.
- [Celia Tennant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/celia_tennant.md): A woman involved in romantic subplots.
- [King Merolchazzar of Oom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/king_merolchazzar.md): A fictional king from a humorous historical tale.
- [J. Gladstone Bott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/j_gladstone_bott.md): A golfer with a pompous demeanor.
- [Mary Kent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/mary_kent.md): A woman who appears in the golfing social circle.
- [Adeline Smethurst](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/adeline_smethurst.md): A woman with a minor role in the stories.
- [Vosper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/vosper.md): A character involved in keeping in with others.
- [Felicia Blakeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/felicia_blakeney.md): A woman who appears in romantic contexts.
- [Ascobaruch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/ascobaruch.md): A character from a historical parody within the book.
- [Margaret Milsom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/margaret_milsom.md): A woman with a minor role in the golf club.
- [Sidney McMurdo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/sidney_mcmurdo.md): A golfer with a minor appearance.
- [Betty Weston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/betty_weston.md): A woman who appears in the social scenes.
- [Charlotte Dix](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/charlotte_dix.md): A woman with a minor role in the stories.
- [The High Priest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/the_high_priest.md): A religious figure in the historical parody tale.
- [Raymond Gandle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/raymond_gandle.md): A golfer with a minor appearance.
- [The Sage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/the_sage.md): A wise figure in the historical parody.
- [Grace Forrester](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/grace_forrester.md): A woman with a minor role.
- [Poor Jenkinson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/characters/poor_jenkinson.md): A golfer pitied by others.

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