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1959 Walker Cup
The 1959 Walker Cup, the 17th Walker Cup Match, was played on 15 and 16 May 1959, at Muirfield, Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. The United States won by 9 matches to 3. The United States won all four of the foursomes matches on the first day. Although Great Britain and Ireland won three of the singles matches on the second day, it was a comfortable win for the United States. Format Four 36-hole matches of foursomes were played on Friday and eight singles matches on Saturday. Each of the 12 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 36th hole extra holes were not played. The team with most points won the competition. If the two teams were tied, the previous winner would retain the trophy. Teams Great Britain & Ireland had a team of 10 plus a non-playing captain. Gerald Micklem was selected as the non-playing captain in November 1958 at which time an initial group of 14 possible players was also announced. The team was announced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ward Wettlaufer
H. Ward Wettlaufer (October 31, 1935 – March 31, 2016) was an American amateur golfer with numerous titles to his name, including the Eastern Amateur, two Porter Cup championships, North and South Amateur, and the Walker Cup as a member of the "unbeatable" 1959 U.S. team. A native of Buffalo, New York, Wettlaufer served for 50 years since graduation from Hamilton College as an executive and CEO of a family business manufacturing and distributing commercial printing supplies. Tournament wins *1953 International Junior Masters *1956 Tam O'Shanter World Amateur, Bermuda Amateur *1958 Eastern Amateur *1959 Eastern Amateur *1960 Porter Cup *1965 Porter Cup *1966 North and South Amateur, Georgia State Amateur, Atlanta Open *1990 Wild Dunes Senior Champion *1991 Wild Dunes Senior Champion *1995 Society of Seniors Medal Play Other career highlights * Canadian Open, low amateur, 1956 *NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, runner-up, 1956 *Western Amateur, quarterfinalist, 1956 *Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muirfield
Muirfield is a privately owned golf links which is the home of The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. Located in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland, overlooking the Firth of Forth, Muirfield is one of the golf courses used in rotation for The Open Championship. Muirfield has hosted The Open Championship sixteen times, most recently in 2013 when Phil Mickelson lifted the trophy. Other past winners at Muirfield include Ernie Els, Nick Faldo (twice), Tom Watson, Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Henry Cotton, Alf Perry, Walter Hagen, Harry Vardon and Harold Hilton. Muirfield has also hosted The Amateur Championship (ten times), the Ryder Cup in 1973, the 1959 and 1979 Walker Cup, the 1952 and 1984 Curtis Cup, and many other tournaments including the Women’s British Open. Muirfield has an unusual layout for a links course. Most links courses run along the coast and then back again leading to two sets of nine holes, the holes in each set facing roughly in the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Perowne (golfer)
Arthur Herbert Perowne (1930 – 10 January 2018) was an English amateur golfer. He played in the Walker Cup in 1949, 1953 and 1959. Perowne won the English Boys' under–18 stroke play title (the Carris Trophy) in 1946. He reached the semi-final of the 1953 Amateur Championship, losing to the American Harvie Ward. In 1958 he shared the Berkshire Trophy with Guy Wolstenholme and won the Brabazon Trophy. Later in 1958 he played in the first Eisenhower Trophy where the Great Britain and Ireland team took the bronze medal. Amateur wins *1946 Carris Trophy *1947 Swedish Amateur Championship *1958 Berkshire Trophy (tie with Guy Wolstenholme), Brabazon Trophy *1964 Norfolk Open Championship *Norfolk Amateur Championship 11 times 1948, 1951 to 1958, 1960, 1961 Results in major championships ''Note: Perowne only played in The Open Championship.'' CUT = missed the half-way cut Team appearances *Walker Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1949, 1953, 1959 *Eisenhower Trophy (re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golf Tournaments In Scotland
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping with the varied terrains encountered on different courses is a key part of the game. Courses typically have either 18 or 9 ''holes'', regions of terrain that each contain a ''cup'', the hole that receives the ball. Each hole on a course contains a teeing ground to start from, and a putting green containing the cup. There are several standard forms of terrain between the tee and the green, such as the fairway, rough (tall grass), and various ''hazards'' such as water, rocks, or sand-filled ''bunkers''. Each hole on a course is unique in its specific layout. Golf is played for the lowest number of strokes by an individual, known as stroke play, or the lowest score on the most individual holes in a complete round by an individual or team, kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Perowne
Arthur William Thomson Perowne (13 June 18679 April 1948) was an Anglican bishop in Britain. He was the first Bishop of Bradford and, from 1931, was the Bishop of Worcester. Birth family and education Perowne was born into a distinguished ecclesiastical family: he was the fourth son of John Perowne, sometime Bishop of Worcester and Anna Woolrych, his uncles Thomas and Edward were Archdeacon of Norwich and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge respectively and his first-cousin Thomas also Archdeacon of Norwich. He was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and King's College, Cambridge (he was admitted 4 October 1886, matriculated that Michaelmas, and gained the degrees of Bachelor of Arts , Cambridge Master of Arts , and Doctor of Divinity ). Priest Having been assistant master at Magdalen College Choir School, Oxford since 1890, Perowne was ordained a deacon on Trinity Sunday (28 May) 1893 and a priest on Trinity Sunday (20 May) 1894 (both times b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvie Ward
Edward Harvie Ward, Jr. (December 8, 1925 – September 4, 2004) was an American golfer best known for his Amateur sports, amateur career. He is best known for winning both the U.S. Amateur (twice) and the British Amateur. Born in Tarboro, North Carolina, Ward attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chapel Hill. As a North Carolina Tar Heels#Men's golf, Tar Heel, he won the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, NCAA Division I individual title in 1949, and graduated with a degree in economics. Ward's win in the British Amateur came in 1952 (he finished runner-up in 1953), and his consecutive U.S. Amateur wins came in 1955 and 1956. He also won several other significant amateur events including the Canadian Amateur, making him one of two golfers to win the U.S., British, and Canadian Amateurs (the other is Dick Chapman). Ward is the only player in history to have won those three titles along with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bud Taylor (golfer)
Frank Monroe "Bud" Taylor Jr. DDS (June 16, 1916 – March 30, 1991) was an American amateur golfer. He played in the 1957, 1959 and 1961 Walker Cup matches. Golf career Taylor represented the United States in the Walker Cup in 1957, 1959, and 1961, in the 1958 Eisenhower Trophy and also in the Americas Cup in 1958 and 1960. He won the California State Amateur Championship in successive years, 1954 and 1955. He played in the Masters five times, twice finishing in the top 20. He also played in the U.S. Open three times. In 1956 he was in the top 10 after two rounds but faded and finished tied for 29th place. Taylor reached the final of the U.S. Amateur in 1957, losing 5 & 4 to Hillman Robbins. Personal life Taylor trained as a dentist at the University of Southern California and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war he practiced dentistry in Pomona, California, and later in Palm Springs until retiring in 1985. In 1990 he moved with his second wife Jane to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Joe Patton
William Joseph Patton (April 19, 1922 – January 1, 2011) was an American amateur golfer best known for almost winning the 1954 Masters Tournament. Patton was born in Morganton, North Carolina. He graduated from Wake Forest University in 1943. In the 1954 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club, Patton came within one stroke of being in a three-man playoff with Ben Hogan and Sam Snead. His final round 71 included a hole-in-one on the par-3 6th hole and a double bogey on the par-5 13th hole, when he tried to reach the green in two and put his ball into Rae's Creek. Patton won several amateur tournaments including the North and South Amateur three times and the Southern Amateur twice. He also won the Carolinas Open twice. Patton played on five Walker Cup teams; 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963, and 1965 and was captain of the 1969 team. He played on the Eisenhower Trophy team in 1958 and 1962. Patton was awarded the Bob Jones Award by the United States Golf Association in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Nicklaus
Jack William Nicklaus (born January 21, 1940), nicknamed The Golden Bear, is a retired American professional golfer and List of golf courses designed by Jack Nicklaus, golf course designer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest golfers of all time. He won 117 professional tournaments in his career. Over a quarter-century, he won a record 18 Men's major golf championships, major championships, three more than second-placed Tiger Woods. Nicklaus focused on the major championships—the Masters Tournament, U.S. Open (golf), U.S. Open, The Open Championship, Open Championship and PGA Championship—and played a selective schedule of regular PGA Tour events. He competed in 164 major tournaments, more than any other player, and finished with 73 PGA Tour victories, third behind Sam Snead (82) and Woods (82). Nicklaus won the U.S. Amateur in 1959 and 1961 and finished second in the 1960 U.S. Open (golf), 1960 U.S. Open, two shots behind Arnold Palmer. Nicklaus turned profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hyndman
William Hyndman III (December 25, 1915 – September 6, 2001) was an American amateur golfer. Hyndman was born in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Hyndman won many amateur tournaments, over an almost 50-year span, including the U.S. Senior Amateur twice (1973 and 1983). He was runner-up in four major amateur tournaments, the 1955 U.S. Amateur and the 1959, 1969, and 1970 British Amateurs. He played on five Walker Cup teams (1957, 1959, 1961, 1969, 1971) and on the Eisenhower Trophy twice (1958, 1960). He defeated Jack Nicklaus in the 1959 British Amateur. Hyndman died Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. Tournament wins *1935 Philadelphia Amateur *1941 Pennsylvania Amateur *1958 Philadelphia Amateur *1961 North and South Amateur *1958 Sunnehanna Amateur *1965 Philadelphia Amateur *1967 Sunnehanna Amateur *1968 Philadelphia Open Championship, Trans-Mississippi Amateur *1969 Philadelphia Open Championship *1973 U.S. Senior Amateur *1974 Northeast Amateur *1980 Philadelphia Senior Amateur *1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deane Beman
} Deane R. Beman (born April 22, 1938) is an American professional golfer, golf administrator. He was the second commissioner of the PGA Tour, serving from 1974 to 1994. Early years Born in Washington, D.C., Beman attended the University of Maryland in nearby College Park, where he was a two-time All-American on the Terrapins golf team. Following graduation, Beman had a career in the insurance field. During his playing career, he qualified for the U.S. Open at age 17 in 1955. He qualified for the Masters Tournament fourteen times, won the U.S. Amateur twice (1960, 1963), and the British Amateur (1959). He also lost a playoff to Gary Cowan for the 1966 U.S. Amateur. Pro career Beman turned professional in 1967 at age 29 and won four times on the PGA Tour between 1969 and 1973. He led for two rounds at the 1969 U.S. Open and finished one shot out of a playoff. Beman was considered short off the tee but complemented it with his short game. Injuries curtailed his playing career. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Aaron
Thomas Dean Aaron (born February 22, 1937) is an American former professional golfer who was a member of the PGA Tour during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Aaron is best known for winning the 1973 Masters Tournament. He is also known for an error in the 1968 Masters Tournament, when he entered a 4 instead of a 3 on Roberto De Vicenzo's scorecard, which kept De Vicenzo out of a playoff for the championship. Early years Thomas Dean Aaron was born on February 22, 1937 in Gainesville, Georgia.Georgia Golf Hall of Fame, Members Tommy Aaron Retrieved December 20, 2015. He began playing golf at age 12 and won two Georgia Amateur titles, two Southeastern Amateur events and two Georgia Open crowns, despite not having a golf course in his hometown. College career Aaron attended the University of Florida, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order Fraternity (Beta Zeta Chapter). While he was a Florida student, he played for the Florida Gators men's golf team from 1956 to 1959, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
