Cyril Walker

For the British paleontologist, see Cyril Walker (palaeontologist). For the English footballer, see Cyril Walker (footballer).

Cyril Walker
— Golfer —
Personal information
Born	(1892-09-18)September 18, 1892 Manchester, England
Died	August 6, 1948(1948-08-06) (aged 55) 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	T14: 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 caddy 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)

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	Bobby Jones

Results timeline

Tournament	1916	1917	1918	1919
U.S. Open	DNP	NT	NT	DNP
The Open Championship	NT	NT	NT	NT
PGA Championship	QF	NT	NT	DNP

Tournament	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929
U.S. Open	DNP	13	T40	23	1	T47	T55	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T14	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	SF	DNP	R16	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934
Masters Tournament	NYF	NYF	NYF	NYF	61
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	QF	DNP	DNP	DNP

NYF = Tournament not yet founded
NT = No tournament
DNP = Did not play
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
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

References

↑ "Open golf title to Cyril Walker". Montreal Gazette. June 7, 1924. p. 17.
↑ "Walker new Open leader". Pittsburgh Press. United Press. June 7, 1924. p. 13.
↑ Sixty, Billy (June 7, 1924). "Walker beats Jones for National Open golf title". Milwaukee Journal. p. 6.
↑ "Cyril Walker, native of England, wins National Open golf crown by beating Jones 3 strokes". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. June 7, 1924. p. 16.
↑ Williams, Joe (July 14, 1924). "Tiny mites carry off golf laurels". Evening Independent. St. Petersburg, Florida. p. 14.
↑ Barkow, Al (November 1989). The History of the PGA TOUR. Copyright PGA Tour. Doubleday. pp. 235–37, 249, 253. ISBN 0-385-26145-4.
1 2 "Cyril Walker is a arrested in golf club war". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 28, 1933. p. 5, part 2.
↑ "Presenting two golfing extremes - fastest and slowest pro". Pittsburgh Press. February 3, 1927. p. 26.
↑ Shifrin, Joshua (2012). "From the Links: Golf's Most Memorable Moments". Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press. p. 34.
↑ Aronstam, H.J. (April 12, 1940). "Caddy ranks claim Cyril Walker who won National Open in 1924". St. Petersburg Times. Florida. United Press. p. 16.
1 2 "Cyril Walker dies in New Jersey cell". Montreal Gazette. Associated Press. August 7, 1948. p. 8.
↑ "Milestones". Time. August 16, 1948. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
↑ "Cyril Walker dies; beat Bobby Jones". Toledo Blade. Ohio. United Press. August 7, 1948. p. 10.
↑ "Cyril Walker a pocket-sized Ben Hogan of his golfing day". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. August 23, 1948. p. 8.
↑ Carroll, Dick (July 2, 1955). "The tragedy of Cyril Walker". Montreal Gazette. p. 8.

External links

Report on the 1924 U.S. Open on the tournament's official site
About.com – Cyril Walker
Cyril Walker at Find a Grave

U.S. Open champions

1895 Horace Rawlins 1896 James Foulis 1897 Joe Lloyd 1898 Fred Herd 1899 Willie Smith 1900 Harry Vardon 1901 Willie Anderson† 1902 Laurie Auchterlonie 1903 Willie Anderson† 1904 Willie Anderson 1905 Willie Anderson 1906 Alex Smith 1907 Alec Ross 1908 Fred McLeod† 1909 George Sargent 1910 Alex Smith† 1911 John McDermott† 1912 John McDermott 1913 Francis Ouimet#† 1914‡ Walter Hagen 1915 Jerome Travers# 1916 Chick Evans# 1917–18 Cancelled due to World War I 1919 Walter Hagen† 1920 Ted Ray 1921‡ Jim Barnes 1922 Gene Sarazen 1923 Bobby Jones#† 1924 Cyril Walker 1925 Willie Macfarlane† 1926 Bobby Jones# 1927 Tommy Armour† 1928 Johnny Farrell† 1929 Bobby Jones#† 1930 Bobby Jones# 1931 Billy Burke† 1932 Gene Sarazen 1933 Johnny Goodman# 1934 Olin Dutra 1935 Sam Parks, Jr. 1936 Tony Manero 1937 Ralph Guldahl 1938 Ralph Guldahl 1939 Byron Nelson† 1940 Lawson Little† 1941 Craig Wood 1942–45 Cancelled due to World War II 1946 Lloyd Mangrum† 1947 Lew Worsham† 1948 Ben Hogan 1949 Cary Middlecoff 1950 Ben Hogan† 1951 Ben Hogan 1952 Julius Boros 1953‡ Ben Hogan 1954 Ed Furgol 1955 Jack Fleck† 1956 Cary Middlecoff 1957 Dick Mayer† 1958 Tommy Bolt 1959 Billy Casper 1960 Arnold Palmer 1961 Gene Littler 1962 Jack Nicklaus† 1963 Julius Boros† 1964 Ken Venturi 1965 Gary Player† 1966 Billy Casper† 1967 Jack Nicklaus 1968 Lee Trevino 1969 Orville Moody 1970‡ Tony Jacklin 1971 Lee Trevino† 1972 Jack Nicklaus 1973 Johnny Miller 1974 Hale Irwin 1975 Lou Graham† 1976 Jerry Pate 1977 Hubert Green 1978 Andy North 1979 Hale Irwin 1980 Jack Nicklaus 1981 David Graham 1982 Tom Watson 1983 Larry Nelson 1984 Fuzzy Zoeller† 1985 Andy North 1986 Raymond Floyd 1987 Scott Simpson 1988 Curtis Strange† 1989 Curtis Strange 1990 Hale Irwin† 1991 Payne Stewart† 1992 Tom Kite 1993 Lee Janzen 1994 Ernie Els† 1995 Corey Pavin 1996 Steve Jones 1997 Ernie Els 1998 Lee Janzen 1999 Payne Stewart 2000‡ Tiger Woods 2001 Retief Goosen† 2002‡ Tiger Woods 2003 Jim Furyk 2004 Retief Goosen 2005 Michael Campbell 2006 Geoff Ogilvy 2007 Ángel Cabrera 2008 Tiger Woods† 2009 Lucas Glover 2010 Graeme McDowell 2011‡ Rory McIlroy 2012 Webb Simpson 2013 Justin Rose 2014‡ Martin Kaymer 2015 Jordan Spieth 2016 Dustin Johnson

† indicates the event was won in a playoff; ‡ indicates the event was won wire-to-wire; # indicates the event was won by an amateur

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