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Joe Kirkwood Sr.

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107: 33: 380:, where he was the local teaching pro at the Stowe Country Club. The club has held the Joe Kirkwood Memorial Golf Tournament annually since 1967. Notably, Kirkwood's skills remained at a high level for most of his life and at age fifty-one, in 1948 he and his son 306:. In 1924, he was one of the top-ranked golfers on the tour with five victories, three of which were consecutive. Kirkwood remains co-holder of the record for the widest winning stroke margin in 372:
Over his lifetime in golf, Kirkwood is credited with scoring twenty-nine holes-in-one, two of which came in the same round. In his later years, he retired to the mountain resort community of
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One of Joe Kirkwood Sr.'s most remarkable feats was playing a round of golf at 10-under-par 62, "breaking his age" when 63 years old.
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with a score of 290, 12 strokes better than the previous tournament record score. Later in 1920 he won the
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became an actor who made a series of Hollywood films portraying the fictional boxer
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Most consecutive cuts made – 11 (1921 Open Championship – 1926 Open Championship)
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atop a domesticated elephant, which he first did (and was photographed doing) at
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to begin travelling around the globe putting on golf and trick-shot exhibitions,
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R32, R16, QF, SF = round in which player lost in PGA Championship match play
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of which were sent back home to be shown in cinemas around the U.S.
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where, in his first competition, he defeated the great
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That year he also teamed up with 177:Best results in major championships 1274:Australian Dictionary of Biography 248:who is acknowledged as having put 14: 325:Kirkwood's best performance in a 1323:20th-century American memoirists 1015:"T" indicates a tie for a place 1005:NYF = tournament not yet founded 105: 542:Results in major championships 536:McVitie & Price Tournament 479:Philadelphia Open Championship 282:Kirkwood's success led him to 1: 1011:CUT = missed the half-way cut 298:in 1923, winning that year's 16:Australian golfer (1897-1970) 456:California Open Championship 1247:. About.com. Archived from 515:this list may be incomplete 434:Australian PGA Championship 1349: 1147: 1116: 1085: 1054: 964: 932: 900: 871: 839: 805: 773: 742: 710: 675: 644: 613: 580: 548: 495:1931 (1) Southeastern Open 418:American Golf Hall of Fame 384:both made the cut at the 242:Joseph Henry Kirkwood Sr. 50:Joseph Henry Kirkwood Sr. 30: 416:. He was elected to the 355:Royal Calcutta Golf Club 337:, a semifinalist in the 1303:Australian male golfers 252:golf on the world map. 458:, St. Augustine Open, 156:Number of wins by tour 1308:American male golfers 1118:The Open Championship 934:The Open Championship 775:The Open Championship 615:The Open Championship 481:, Corpus Christi Open 422:Foxburg, Pennsylvania 220:The Open Championship 1318:Golfers from Vermont 500:North and South Open 460:Houston Invitational 300:Houston Invitational 100:Sporting nationality 40:Personal information 414:Burlington, Vermont 246:professional golfer 125:Turned professional 92:Burlington, Vermont 1056:Masters Tournament 1007:NT = no tournament 1002: Did not play 873:Masters Tournament 712:Masters Tournament 449:PGA Tour wins (13) 267:in the Australian 184:Masters Tournament 1207: 1206: 991: 990: 835: 834: 671: 670: 444:Professional wins 239: 238: 147:Professional wins 1340: 1313:PGA Tour golfers 1284:Joe Kirkwood Sr. 1261: 1260: 1258: 1256: 1240: 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Sydney
Australia
Burlington, Vermont
Australia
PGA Tour
Masters Tournament
PGA Championship
1930
U.S. Open
1933
The Open Championship
1923
1927
1934
professional golfer
Australian
Sydney
Australia
station
Outback
Australian Open
New Zealand Open
England
Europe
Harry Vardon
United States
Houston Invitational
PGA Tour
PGA Tour

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