Jock Hutchison
Jock Hutchison | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Jack Falls Hutchison | ||
Nickname | Jock | ||
Born | St Andrews, Fife, Scotland | June 6, 1884||
Died | September 27, 1977 Evanston, Illinois, U.S. | (aged 93)||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[1] | ||
Sporting nationality | Scotland United States | ||
Spouse | Maire | ||
Career | |||
Status | Professional | ||
Professional wins | 20 | ||
Number of wins by tour | |||
PGA Tour | 14 | ||
Other | 6 | ||
Best results in major championships (wins: 2) | |||
Masters Tournament | 43rd: 1941 | ||
PGA Championship | Won: 1920 | ||
U.S. Open | 2nd/T2: 1916, 1920 | ||
The Open Championship | Won: 1921 | ||
Achievements and awards | |||
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Jack Falls "Jock" Hutchison (June 6, 1884 – September 27, 1977) was a Scottish-American professional golfer.
Hutchison was born in
In 1937, Hutchison won the inaugural
Beginning in 1963, Hutchison was one of the two men who served as honorary starters for The Masters (along with 1908 U.S. Open champion Fred McLeod), until ailments prevented him from hitting one of the honorary tee shots in 1973. His death on September 27, 1977, came just two days before Masters co-founder Clifford Roberts' own death.
Hutchison died at the age of 93 in Evanston, Illinois. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2011.[8]
Professional wins
PGA Tour wins (14)
- 1918 (1) Florida West Coast Open
- Illinois Open, Western Open, PGA Championship
- 1921 (3) White Sulphur Springs Open, The Open Championship, North and South Open
- 1922 (2) Columbia Country Club Open, Northern California Open
- 1923 (1) Western Open
- 1925 (1) Illinois PGA Championship
- 1926 (1) Illinois PGA Championship
- 1928 (1) Florida West Coast Open
Other wins
- 1916 Pennsylvania Open Championship
- 1917 National Patriotic Tournament
- 1921 Kinghorn Tournament[9]
- 1923 Illinois PGA Championship
Senior wins
- 1937 PGA Seniors' Championship
- 1947 PGA Seniors' Championship
Major championships
Wins (2)
Year | Championship | 54 holes | Winning score | Margin | Runner-up |
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1920 | PGA Championship | n/a | 1 up | James Douglas Edgar | |
1921 | The Open Championship | 4 shot deficit | 72-75-79-70=296 | Playoff1 | Roger Wethered |
1 Hutchison defeated Wethered in a 36-hole playoff by nine strokes: Hutchison 74-76=150; Wethered 77-82=159.
Note: The PGA Championship was match play until 1958
Results timeline
Tournament | 1908 | 1909 |
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U.S. Open | T8 | T23 |
The Open Championship |
Tournament | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 |
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U.S. Open | T8 | T5 | T23 | T16 | WD | T8 | 2 | NT | NT | T3 |
The Open Championship | NT | NT | NT | NT | NT | |||||
PGA Championship | NYF | NYF | NYF | NYF | NYF | NYF | 2 | NT | NT | QF |
Tournament | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 |
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U.S. Open | T2 | T18 | T8 | 3 | T31 | T27 | CUT | 23 | T41 | CUT |
The Open Championship | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
PGA Championship | 1 | R16 | QF | R32 | QF |
Tournament | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 |
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Masters Tournament | NYF | NYF | NYF | NYF | T51 | WD | WD | WD | ||
U.S. Open | WD | T45 | ||||||||
The Open Championship | ||||||||||
PGA Championship |
Tournament | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 |
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Masters Tournament | NT | NT | NT | |||||||
U.S. Open | T23 | 57 | NT | NT | NT | NT | CUT | CUT | CUT | |
The Open Championship | NT | NT | NT | NT | NT | NT | ||||
PGA Championship | NT |
Tournament | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 |
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Masters Tournament | WD | WD | WD | WD | WD | WD | WD | |||
U.S. Open | CUT | CUT | ||||||||
The Open Championship | ||||||||||
PGA Championship |
Tournament | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 |
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Masters Tournament | WD | WD | WD |
U.S. Open | |||
The Open Championship | |||
PGA Championship |
NYF = Tournament not yet founded
NT = No tournament
WD = Withdrew
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
- New York, New York. October 15, 1916. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ScotlandsPeople. Archived from the originalon November 21, 2008. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
- ScotlandsPeople. Archived from the originalon November 21, 2008. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
- ^ "Person Details for Jack Hutchison, "Illinois, Northern District Naturalization Index, 1840-1950" — FamilySearch.org". FamilySearch. Archived from the original on February 18, 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
- ^ "Person Details for Jack Falls Hutchison, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918" — FamilySearch.org". FamilySearch. Archived from the original on February 18, 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
- ^ "Person Details for John F Hutchison, "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925" — FamilySearch.org". FamilySearch. Archived from the original on February 18, 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
- ^ "1921 Jock Hutchison". The Open. Archived from the original on October 16, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
- ^ "2011 Hall of Fame class: Els, Ford, Bush, Hutchison". PGA Tour. September 22, 2010. Archived from the original on December 12, 2013. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
- ^ "Golf – Kinghorn tournament – Hutchison's easy win". The Glasgow Herald. June 16, 1921. p. 11.