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-born professional golfer who was based in the United States.
Early life
Hutchison was born in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, the son of William and Helen (née Falls). His name was registered as John Waters Hutchison,[2] Waters being the maiden name of William's mother. He appears in the 1901 census as John Hutchison, golf caddie.[3] He had an older brother who was also a golf player, Tom Hutchison.
Golf career
Hutchison later moved to the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 1920.[4] He was known there as Jack Falls Hutchison[5] or John Falls Hutchison.[6] He won two major championships, the PGA Championship in 1920 and the Open Championship at St Andrews in 1921. His 1921 victory was the first by a U.S.-based player;[7] the following year Walter Hagen became the first U.S.-born winner.
In 1937, Hutchison won the inaugural PGA Seniors' Championship at Augusta National Golf Club and in 1947 he won the event for a second time.
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.
Death
Hutchinson died on September 27, 1977. It came just two days before Masters co-founder Clifford Roberts' own death. He was 93 years old. He died in Evanston, Illinois.
Awards and honors
In 2011, Hutchinson was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.[8]
Professional wins (20)
PGA Tour wins (14)
- 1918 (1) Florida West Coast Open
- 1920 (4) West Baden Springs Hotel, 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 (4)
- 1916 Pennsylvania Open Championship
- 1917 National Patriotic Tournament
- 1921 Kinghorn Tournament[9]
- 1923 Illinois PGA Championship
Senior wins (2)
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
- ^ "Jim Barnes Gets Wanamaker Trophy" (PDF). The New York Times. New York, New York. October 15, 1916. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ^ "Births in the United District of St Andrews and St Leonards in the County of Fife". Statutory Births 453/00 0101. ScotlandsPeople. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
- ^ "Census of Scotland 1901 – registration district 453, enumeration district 5, schedule 153". Census 1901 453/00 005/00 031. ScotlandsPeople. Archived from the original on 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.