Melvyn,
This is NOT your man but I thought it might be interesting to you anyway. From An American Golfer article from 1932 (soon after D R Forgan’s death) comes the following:
Mr. Forgan came from grey St.Andrews, where I myself have seen the golf shop of his father and relatives alongside of the eighteenth hole of that famous course. He was brought up in the atmosphere and ways of a game that was to mean much to men situated like Mr. Ames [another who’d recently passed away] in far off America. Not that Mr. Ames was not a most original sportsman; but while Mr. Forgan was playing golf from an early age in a natural, neighborly way, Mr. Ames was playing baseball, football, and performing miracles on the running track and in the field events. …Mr. Forgan came to America with his golf, and Mr. Ames was graduated from a university without a game, and they both came to Chicago for their business. Mr. Forgan's game was kept up so well that he almost lost one of his first important positions in pursuit of it. Mr. Forgan was ordered to appear before his employer and was told that his, Forgan's, golf-playing was endangering the success of the business. And Mr. Forgan replied that if the business was that shaky he did not think that he should be associated with it. Mr. Forgan did not lose his job, and he and his employer spent many an hour playing the good old game….."
Peter