Edward Harvie Ward, Jr. (December 8, 1925 – September 4, 2004) was an American

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er best known for his amateur career. He is best known for winning both the

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(twice) and the

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. Born in

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, Ward attended the

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in Chapel Hill. As a

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, he won the NCAA Division I individual title in 1949, and graduated with a degree in

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. Ward's win in the

came in 1952 (he finished runner-up in 1953), and his consecutive

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

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). Ward is the only player in history to have won those three titles along with the NCAA Championship. He finished runner-up in the 1952

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. He also won the 1977

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as a professional. Ward played on three winning

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teams (1953, 1955, 1959), winning all six of his matches. In 1957, Ward lost his amateur status, in a controversial ruling by the

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, for accepting expense money from sponsors for golf tournaments. The ruling was reversed in 1958. His primary sponsor,

Eddie Lowery Edward Edgar Lowery (October 14, 1902 – May 4, 1984) was an American caddie, amateur golfer and multi-millionaire businessman. Lowery is best known as the 10-year-old caddie of Francis Ouimet during the 1913 U.S. Open, held at The Country C ...

, who was serving at the time on the

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's Executive Committee, had incorrectly claimed income tax deductions for the money he was spending to sponsor Ward, one of his car dealership employees in the

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area. Ward was unaware of this situation, and was not personally at fault. Following the ruling, Ward's life went into a tailspin, and he took several years to recover. Ward played in 19 professional majors. In 11 Masters Tournament appearances, he finished in the top 10 twice (4th in

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and tied for 8th in 1955), in the top 25 five times, and only missed two cuts. In the U.S. Open, he made the cut in five of eight appearances, including a tie for 7th in 1955. Ward turned professional in 1974, and became a club professional and golf instructor. His best-known student was three-time major winner

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. He worked at Foxfire Country Club, Grand Cypress Golf Club ( Orlando, Florida), Interlachen Golf Club (

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) and Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club (

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). He played occasionally on the Senior PGA Tour from 1980 to 1990. Ward was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 1965, the Carolinas Golf Reporters Association - Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame in 1981, and the Carolinas PGA Hall of Fame in 1996.

Amateur wins

*1948

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*1949 NCAA Division I Championship, Carolinas Amateur, Tournament of Golf Champions *1952

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*1953

*1954 Canadian Amateur *1955

, San Francisco City Championship *1956

Professional wins

*1977

Major championships

Amateur wins (3)

Results timeline

''Note: Ward never played in

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or the

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.''
LA = low amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
R128, R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = round in which player lost in match play
"T" indicates a tie for a place Sources: Masters, U.S. Open and U.S. AmateurUSGA Championship Database

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur *

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yug ...

(winners), 1955 (winners),

1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

(winners) *

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: 1952 (winners), 1954 (winners), 1956 (winners), 1958 (winners)

References

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Obituary
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ward, Harvie American male golfers Amateur golfers North Carolina Tar Heels men's golfers PGA Tour Champions golfers Golfers from North Carolina People from Tarboro, North Carolina People from Pinehurst, North Carolina 1925 births 2004 deaths