GOLF medals and a trophy won by a Huddersfield sporting legend more than a century ago are to go under the hammer.

The medals won by Alexander “Sandy” Herd – who won the British Open in 1902, when he was the professional at Huddersfield Golf Club – are set to fetch between £350 and £500 at an auction.

One medal alone – Herd’s 1905 Scotland v England silver PGA medal – is expected to sell for between £150 and £200 at the auction at Bonhams at Chester next Wednesday.

Other medals in the sale include Mr Herd’s silver-gilt Ryder Medal for a golf match sponsored by Sam Ryder between the Metropolitan Police team and Hertfordshire professionals; his 1920 Roehampton Cup medal; and his silver News of the World medal, inscribed ‘1930, 2nd round.’

All will be auctioned along with a copy of Herd’s book, My Golfing Life, which he gave to his daughter.

The sale also includes a silver golf trophy won by Herd in 1911 – which was also his final year as the Huddersfield golf club pro. It is expected to sell for between £800 and £1200.

The two-handled trophy, made by silversmiths Mappin & Webb, is engraved: “The Sphere and Tatler Foursomes, Walton Heath, 1911 Alex Herd.”

Sandy Herd, born in Scotland in 1868, was in his mid twenties when he became the first professional at Huddersfield Golf Club in 1892, the year after the club was formed.

He was the pro at Huddersfield for nearly 20 years and was there until 1911.

While with the Huddersfield club, he won the British Open at Hoylake in 1902.

He had a three shot lead after fifty four holes, but nearly let the title slip out of his hands by scoring an 81 in the final round. Harry Vardon and James Braid both had medium length putts at the final hole to force a play off, but they missed and Herd took the Championship.

He was the first Open champion to use the Haskell rubber cored ball.

In 1920, when he was in his early 50s, he became the oldest runner up in The Open and that record stood for 89 years until Tom Watson beat Herd’s record by finishing runner up in The Open at Turnberry in 2009, at the age of 59.

Sandy Herd was 71 when he made his final Open appearance at St Andrews in 1939. He died in London in 1944.

His brother, Fred, won the 1898 US Open.