Cyril Walker (golfer)

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Cyril Walker
— Golfer —
Personal information
Born (1892-09-18)September 18, 1892
Manchester, England
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Hackensack, New Jersey, U.S.
Weight 118 lb (54 kg; 8.4 st)
Nationality  England
 United States
Career
Status Professional
Professional wins 7
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour 6
Other 1
Best results in major championships
(wins: 1)
Masters Tournament 61st: 1934
U.S. Open Won: 1924
The Open Championship T18: 1926
PGA Championship T3: 1921

Cyril Walker (September 18, 1892 – August 6, 1948) was an English professional golfer born in Manchester who emigrated to the United States in 1914.

Walker won the 1924 U.S. Open at Oakland Hills Country Club, while playing out of Englewood Golf Club in New Jersey. He beat defending champion Bobby Jones by three strokes.[1][2][3][4] This was his only top ten finish in seven appearances at the U.S. Open. He was a small man, weighing only 118 pounds (54 kg).[5]

Walker won six PGA events between 1917 and 1930.[6] He also won the Indiana Open in 1916.

In 1928, he became the pro at the Saddle River Golf and Country Club in Paramus, New Jersey.[7]

Career demise

Walker's slow pace of play,[8][9] combined with his sometimes-combative personality, eventually made him unpopular with fellow players and tournament sponsors. This hastened his exit from the then-nascent professional golfers' tournament circuit. While a club pro at Saddle River in 1933, he was arrested for destroying the signs of a neighboring course.[7]

An alcohol addiction further hastened his downward spiral during the 1930s and he ultimately found himself in a near-destitute condition working as a caddie in Florida at the Miami Beach municipal course in 1940,[10] and later as a dishwasher.[11]

Walker died of pleural pneumonia in a Hackensack, New Jersey jail cell where he had gone for shelter.[11][12][13][14][15]

Professional wins

PGA Tour wins (6)

Other wins

Major championships

Wins (1)

Year Championship 54 holes Winning score Margin Runner-up
1924 U.S. Open Tied for lead +9 (74-74-74-75=297) 3 strokes United States Bobby Jones

Results timeline

Tournament 1916 1917 1918 1919
U.S. Open NT NT
The Open Championship NT NT NT NT
PGA Championship QF NT NT
Tournament 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
U.S. Open 13 T40 23 1 T47 T55
The Open Championship T18
PGA Championship SF R16
Tournament 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934
Masters Tournament NYF NYF NYF NYF 61
U.S. Open CUT
The Open Championship
PGA Championship QF
  Win
  Top 10
  Did not play

NYF = Tournament not yet founded
NT = No tournament
CUT = missed the half-way cut
R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in PGA Championship match play
"T" indicates a tie for a place

See also

References

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External links

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