Auguste Boyer (13 March 1896 – 21 October 1956) was a French

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prominent on the European circuit in the 1920s and 1930s. He won four Italian Opens, four German Opens, three Swiss Opens, two Belgian Opens, and one Dutch Open. He also finished runner-up three times in his home

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.Tournament win list at where2golf.com
- select name from drop down list Boyer was born in

Cagnes-sur-Mer Cagnes-sur-Mer (, literally ''Cagnes on Sea''; oc, Canha de Mar) is a French Riviera town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Geography Cagnes-sur-Mer is a town in south-eastern ...

and died in

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Tournament wins (16)

''this list may be incomplete'' *1926 Italian Open *1928 Italian Open *1930 German Open, Italian Open *1930

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*1931 Italian Open *1932 Dutch Open, German Open *1933 Belgian Open, French PGA Championship *1934

*1935 German Open,

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(with Francis Francis) *1936 Belgian Open, German Open

Team appearances

*France-Great Britain Professional Match (representing France): 1929 *Continental Europe-United States Match (non-playing captain): 1953

References

French male golfers People from Cagnes-sur-Mer Sportspeople from Alpes-Maritimes 1896 births 1956 deaths 20th-century French people {{France-golf-bio-stub