Английская Википедия:Cyril Walker (golfer)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox golfer 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. This was his only top ten finish in seven appearances at the U.S. Open. He was a small man, weighing only Шаблон:Convert.

Walker won six PGA events between 1917 and 1930. 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.

Career demise

Walker's slow pace of play, 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.

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, and later as a dishwasher.

Walker died of pleural pneumonia in a Hackensack, New Jersey jail cell where he had gone for shelter.

Professional wins

PGA Tour wins (6)

• 1917 (1) one win
• 1921 (1) Pennsylvania Open Championship
• 1922 (1) one win
• 1923 (1) one win
• 1924 (1) U.S. Open
• 1930 (1) Miami International Four-Ball (with Clarence Gamber)

Other wins

• 1916 Indiana Open

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	Шаблон:Flagicon 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

Шаблон:Legend Шаблон:Legend Шаблон:Legend 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

• List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins

External links

• Report on the 1924 U.S. Open on the tournament's official site
• GolfCompendium.com – Cyril Walker