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Cyril Walker (golfer)

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English professional golfer

Cyril Walker
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)
Sporting nationality	England United States
Career
Status	Professional
Professional wins	7
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	5
Other	2
Best results in major championships (wins: 1)
Masters Tournament	61st: 1934
PGA Championship	T3:1921
U.S. Open	Won:1924
The Open Championship	T18: 1926

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

Professional career

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Walker won the 1924U.S. Open atOakland Hills Country Club, while playing out ofEnglewood Golf Club inNew Jersey. He beat defending championBobby 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 fivePGA events between 1917 and 1924.^[6] Walker's slow pace of play,^[7]^[8] 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.

In 1928, he became the pro at the Saddle River Golf and Country Club inParamus,New Jersey.^[9] While a club pro at Saddle River in 1933, he was arrested for destroying the signs of a neighboring course.^[9]

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

Death

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Walker died ofpleural pneumonia in aHackensack, New Jersey jail cell where he had gone for shelter.^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]

Professional wins (7)

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PGA Tour wins (5)

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1917 (1) International Four-Ball
1921 (1)Pennsylvania Open Championship
1922 (1) Mobile Country Club
1923 (1) Mid-South Amateur-Professional
1924 (1)U.S. Open

Source:^[16]

Other wins (2)

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1916Indiana Open
1930Miami International Four-Ball (withClarence Gamber)

Major championships

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Wins (1)

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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

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

Tournament	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926
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

References

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^"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.^{[permanent dead link]}
^"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.
^"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.ISBN 9780762790272.
^^a ^b"Cyril Walker is a arrested in golf club war".Chicago Daily Tribune. May 28, 1933. p. 5, part 2.
^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.
^^a ^b"Cyril Walker dies in New Jersey cell".Montreal Gazette. Associated Press. August 7, 1948. p. 8.
^"Milestones".Time. August 16, 1948. Archived fromthe original on February 24, 2009. RetrievedJanuary 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.
^"Cyril Walker". PGA Tour. RetrievedJune 6, 2025.

External links

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

v t e U.S. Open champions
1895Horace Rawlins 1896James Foulis 1897Joe Lloyd 1898Fred Herd 1899Willie Smith 1900Harry Vardon 1901Willie Anderson† 1902Laurie Auchterlonie 1903Willie Anderson† 1904Willie Anderson 1905Willie Anderson 1906Alex Smith 1907Alec Ross 1908Fred McLeod† 1909George Sargent 1910Alex Smith† 1911John McDermott† 1912John McDermott 1913Francis Ouimet#† 1914‡Walter Hagen 1915Jerome Travers# 1916Chick Evans# 1919Walter Hagen† 1920Ted Ray 1921‡Jim Barnes 1922Gene Sarazen 1923Bobby Jones#† 1924Cyril Walker 1925Willie Macfarlane† 1926Bobby Jones# 1927Tommy Armour† 1928Johnny Farrell† 1929Bobby Jones#† 1930Bobby Jones# 1931Billy Burke† 1932Gene Sarazen 1933Johnny Goodman# 1934Olin Dutra 1935Sam Parks Jr. 1936Tony Manero 1937Ralph Guldahl 1938Ralph Guldahl 1939Byron Nelson† 1940Lawson Little† 1941Craig Wood 1946Lloyd Mangrum† 1947Lew Worsham† 1948Ben Hogan 1949Cary Middlecoff 1950Ben Hogan† 1951Ben Hogan 1952Julius Boros 1953‡Ben Hogan 1954Ed Furgol 1955Jack Fleck† 1956Cary Middlecoff 1957Dick Mayer† 1958Tommy Bolt 1959Billy Casper 1960Arnold Palmer 1961Gene Littler 1962Jack Nicklaus† 1963Julius Boros† 1964Ken Venturi 1965Gary Player† 1966Billy Casper† 1967Jack Nicklaus 1968Lee Trevino 1969Orville Moody 1970‡Tony Jacklin 1971Lee Trevino† 1972Jack Nicklaus 1973Johnny Miller 1974Hale Irwin 1975Lou Graham† 1976Jerry Pate 1977Hubert Green 1978Andy North 1979Hale Irwin 1980Jack Nicklaus 1981David Graham 1982Tom Watson 1983Larry Nelson 1984Fuzzy Zoeller† 1985Andy North 1986Raymond Floyd 1987Scott Simpson 1988Curtis Strange† 1989Curtis Strange 1990Hale Irwin† 1991Payne Stewart† 1992Tom Kite 1993Lee Janzen 1994Ernie Els† 1995Corey Pavin 1996Steve Jones 1997Ernie Els 1998Lee Janzen 1999Payne Stewart 2000‡Tiger Woods 2001Retief Goosen† 2002‡Tiger Woods 2003Jim Furyk 2004Retief Goosen 2005Michael Campbell 2006Geoff Ogilvy 2007Ángel Cabrera 2008Tiger Woods† 2009Lucas Glover 2010Graeme McDowell 2011‡Rory McIlroy 2012Webb Simpson 2013Justin Rose 2014‡Martin Kaymer 2015Jordan Spieth 2016Dustin Johnson 2017Brooks Koepka 2018Brooks Koepka 2019Gary Woodland 2020Bryson DeChambeau 2021Jon Rahm 2022Matt Fitzpatrick 2023Wyndham Clark 2024Bryson DeChambeau 2025J. J. Spaun
† indicates the event was won in a playoff; ‡ indicates the event was won wire-to-wire; # indicates the event was won by an amateur; 1942–1945cancelled due toWorld War II

U.S. Open champions

† indicates the event was won in a playoff; ‡ indicates the event was won wire-to-wire; # indicates the event was won by an amateur; 1942–1945cancelled due toWorld War II