Guy Wolstenholme
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Guy Bertram Wolstenholme (8 March 1931 – 9 October 1984) was an English professional golf
er. He had a successful career both as an amateur and then as a professional.
Wolstenholme was born in Leicester
, and is the father of Gary Wolstenholme
.
As an amateur, Wolstenholme won both the English stroke play
and match play
championships, the latter on two occasions. He also won several other presigious titles, including the Berkshire Trophy three times, and the German Amateur Championship in 1956. He played on the Great Britain and Ireland team in the 1959 Walker Cup
and 1958 and 1960 Eisenhower Trophy
, finishing third both years. The highlight of his amateur career came in 1960, when finishing 6th, and low amateur, in The Open Championship
at St Andrews
.
Wolstenholme turned professional in 1960, and played for several years on the European Circuit, and later the European Tour
following its formation in the early 1970s. Despite joineding the pro ranks relatively late, he had considerable success, winning 5 tournaments including the British PGA Close Championship and three national opens. He also broke the record for the greatest winning margin on the circuit, when he won the 1963 Jeyes Tournament at Royal Dublin
by 12 strokes. He emigrated to Australia
in the 1960s and enjoyed more successes, winning several tournaments including the Victoria State Open on four occasions.
Wolstenholme played on the Senior PGA Tour (now the Champions Tour
) in the United States in 1982 and 1983. He recorded two runner-up finishes, in the 1982 Greater Syracuse Senior's Pro Golf Classic and the 1983 Daytona Beach Seniors Golf Classic
, and ended the season 8th on the money list in 1983.
Wolstenholme died in 1984 after losing his fight against cancer
.
Professional
Wolstenholme only played in the U.S. Amateur, The Open Championship and The Amateur Championship
LA = Low Amateur
NYF = Tournament not yet founded
NT = No tournament
DNP = Did not play
WD = Withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place
DNQ = Did not qualify for match play portion
R256, R128, R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in match play
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10
Source for U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur: USGA Championship Database
Source for The British Open: www.opengolf.com
Source for 1953 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 29 May 1953, pg. 4.
Source for 1954 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 27 May 1954, pg. 4.
Source for 1955 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 3 June 1955, pg. 4.
Source for 1956 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 30 May 1956, pg. 4.
Source for 1957 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 29 May 1957, pg. 4.
Source for 1958 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 6 June 1958, pg. 4.
Source for 1959 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 30 May 1959, pg. 9.
Source for 1960 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 26 May 1960, pg. 13.
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
er. He had a successful career both as an amateur and then as a professional.
Wolstenholme was born in Leicester
Leicester
Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...
, and is the father of Gary Wolstenholme
Gary Wolstenholme
Gary P. Wolstenholme is an English professional golfer known for his long amateur career.Wolstenholme was born in Egham, Surrey. His father was Guy Wolstenholme a professional golfer. He has won The Amateur Championship twice as well as many other amateur tournaments around the world...
.
As an amateur, Wolstenholme won both the English stroke play
Stroke play
Stroke play, also known as medal play, is a scoring system in the sport of golf. It involves counting the total number of strokes taken on each hole during a given round, or series of rounds...
and match play
Match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; this is as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes...
championships, the latter on two occasions. He also won several other presigious titles, including the Berkshire Trophy three times, and the German Amateur Championship in 1956. He played on the Great Britain and Ireland team in the 1959 Walker Cup
Walker Cup
The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested biennially in odd numbered years between teams comprising the leading amateur golfers of the United States and Great Britain and Ireland...
and 1958 and 1960 Eisenhower Trophy
Eisenhower Trophy
The Eisenhower Trophy is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation. It is named for Dwight D. Eisenhower, the President of the United States when the tournament was first played, who was a keen amateur golfer. Recent tournaments have...
, finishing third both years. The highlight of his amateur career came in 1960, when finishing 6th, and low amateur, in The Open Championship
The Open Championship
The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...
at St Andrews
Old Course at St Andrews
The Old Course at St Andrews is the oldest golf course in the world. The Old Course is a public course over common land in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland and is held in trust by The St Andrews Links Trust under an act of Parliament...
.
Wolstenholme turned professional in 1960, and played for several years on the European Circuit, and later the European Tour
PGA European Tour
The PGA European Tour is an organization which operates the three leading men's professional golf tours in Europe: the elite European Tour, the European Seniors Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour. Its headquarters are at Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England...
following its formation in the early 1970s. Despite joineding the pro ranks relatively late, he had considerable success, winning 5 tournaments including the British PGA Close Championship and three national opens. He also broke the record for the greatest winning margin on the circuit, when he won the 1963 Jeyes Tournament at Royal Dublin
The Royal Dublin Golf Club
The Royal Dublin Golf Club, founded in 1885, is Ireland's second oldest golf club. It is a private members' club.The Royal Dublin is an 18-hole links course on Bull Island, Dublin, Ireland, one of the biggest golf clubs in the country...
by 12 strokes. He emigrated to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
in the 1960s and enjoyed more successes, winning several tournaments including the Victoria State Open on four occasions.
Wolstenholme played on the Senior PGA Tour (now the Champions Tour
Champions Tour
The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA Tour, hosts a series of events annually in the United States and the United Kingdom for golfers 50 years of age and older. Many of the PGA Tour's most successful golfers have gone on to play on the Champions Tour.The Senior PGA Championship, founded in...
) in the United States in 1982 and 1983. He recorded two runner-up finishes, in the 1982 Greater Syracuse Senior's Pro Golf Classic and the 1983 Daytona Beach Seniors Golf Classic
Daytona Beach Seniors Golf Classic
The Daytona Beach Seniors Golf Classic was a golf tournament on the Champions Tour from 1983 to 1984. It was played in Daytona Beach, Florida at the Pelican Bay Golf and Country Club, now known as the Club at Pelican Bay....
, and ended the season 8th on the money list in 1983.
Wolstenholme died in 1984 after losing his fight against cancer
Cancer
Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
.
Amateur wins
- 1956 English AmateurEnglish AmateurThe English Amateur is the national amateur match play golf championship of England. It has been played annually since 1925 and is organized by the English Golf Union....
, Berkshire Trophy, German Amateur Open Championship - 1957 Golf Illustrated Gold Vase
- 1958 Berkshire Trophy
- 1959 English AmateurEnglish AmateurThe English Amateur is the national amateur match play golf championship of England. It has been played annually since 1925 and is organized by the English Golf Union....
- 1960 Brabazon TrophyBrabazon TrophyThe English Men's Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship for the Brabazon Trophy is the national amateur stroke play golf championship in England . It has been played annually since 1947 and is organized by the English Golf Union.The format is 72 hole stroke play contested over 4 days...
, Berkshire Trophy
Professional wins
- 1963 Jeyes Tournament
- 1966 British PGA Close Championship
- 1967 Kenya OpenKenya OpenThe Kenya Open is a golf tournament in Kenya and has been an event on the European based Challenge Tour schedule since 1991. It was founded in 1967, and has been held at Muthaiga Golf Club near Nairobi every year except 1968 and between 2004 and 2008, when the tournament was held at Karen Country...
, Denmark Open - 1970 Endeavour Masters Tournament (Australia), Dutch Open
- 1971 South Australian Open, Victorian OpenVictorian OpenThe Victorian Open is an annual golf tournament held in Australia. It was founded in 1957 and is the Victoria state open championship.The Victorian Open is one of the lower rated events on the PGA Tour of Australasia schedule, having previously been part of the developmental Von Nida Tour which...
(Australia) - 1976 Victorian OpenVictorian OpenThe Victorian Open is an annual golf tournament held in Australia. It was founded in 1957 and is the Victoria state open championship.The Victorian Open is one of the lower rated events on the PGA Tour of Australasia schedule, having previously been part of the developmental Von Nida Tour which...
(Australia) - 1978 Victorian OpenVictorian OpenThe Victorian Open is an annual golf tournament held in Australia. It was founded in 1957 and is the Victoria state open championship.The Victorian Open is one of the lower rated events on the PGA Tour of Australasia schedule, having previously been part of the developmental Von Nida Tour which...
(Australia) - 1980 Victorian OpenVictorian OpenThe Victorian Open is an annual golf tournament held in Australia. It was founded in 1957 and is the Victoria state open championship.The Victorian Open is one of the lower rated events on the PGA Tour of Australasia schedule, having previously been part of the developmental Von Nida Tour which...
(Australia) - 1981 Australian Seniors Championship
Results in major championships
Amateur| Tournament | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico... |
DNP | CUT | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | T16 | 6 LA |
| U.S. Amateur | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | R64 | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| The Amateur Championship The Amateur Championship The Amateur Championship is a golf tournament which is held annually in the United Kingdom. It is one of the two leading individual tournaments for amateur golfers, alongside the U.S. Amateur... |
R16 | R64 | R16 | R64 | R64 | R16 | SF | R32 |
Professional
| Tournament | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico... |
T32 | T24 | CUT | CUT | T17 | T37 | T13 | CUT | T11 |
| Tournament | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico... |
T22 | T33 | DNP | T39 | DNP | DNP | T17 | CUT | T39 | T57 |
Wolstenholme only played in the U.S. Amateur, The Open Championship and The Amateur Championship
LA = Low Amateur
NYF = Tournament not yet founded
NT = No tournament
DNP = Did not play
WD = Withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place
DNQ = Did not qualify for match play portion
R256, R128, R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in match play
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10
Source for U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur: USGA Championship Database
Source for The British Open: www.opengolf.com
Source for 1953 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 29 May 1953, pg. 4.
Source for 1954 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 27 May 1954, pg. 4.
Source for 1955 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 3 June 1955, pg. 4.
Source for 1956 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 30 May 1956, pg. 4.
Source for 1957 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 29 May 1957, pg. 4.
Source for 1958 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 6 June 1958, pg. 4.
Source for 1959 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 30 May 1959, pg. 9.
Source for 1960 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, 26 May 1960, pg. 13.