Career
George qualified for the 1950 Open Championship but missed the cut by a single stroke. Boomer was born circa 1885 in Islington, London, England. He grew up on the Isle of Jersey where his father was a school teacher in Grouville.
He was a well known golf teacher of the early 20th century and wrote one of the most popular instructional books on golf of the era, On Learning Golf, published in 1942.
He learned to play golf through the writing of Harry Vardon and Ted Ray. Boomer was one of the top teachers of golf in Europe and spent the majority of his professional career at Saint Cloud Country Club in the Paris suburbs.
He was a proponent of muscle memory in the golf swing and reminded his students to block out negative thoughts in favor of more positive ones in order to play better golf. He was one of the first golf teachers to use stop-action photography.
Boomer endeared himself to his followers when he wrote, "Everything I have ever done in golf, I have had to learn to do."
He died on 29 April 1949 in Sunningdale, Berkshire, England.
Boomer was inducted into the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame in 1998.
