Harry Weetman was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 professional golf

Golf

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er.

Weetman won many tournaments on the British PGA circuit in the pre-European Tour era and won the Harry Vardon Trophy for lowest stroke average in 1952 and 1956. He finished in the top-10 at 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...

 six times.

Weetman played in the Ryder Cup

Ryder Cup

The Ryder Cup is a biennial golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States. The competition is jointly administered by the PGA of America and the PGA European Tour, and is contested every two years, the venue alternating between courses in the United States and Europe...

 in 1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961 and 1963 and had a 2-11-2 win-loss-tie record, with both of his wins coming in singles matches. He captained the team in 1965.

Weetman died in Redhill hospital in 1972 after being involved in a car accident on the Caterham bypass.

Professional wins

This list may be inclomplete

• 1951 News of the World Match Play
• 1952 British Masters
• 1957 Swallow-Penfold Tournament, German Open
  German Open (golf)
  The German Open was a men's golf tournament. It was first staged in 1911 when the winner was Harry Vardon. The following year the champion was another of the Great Triumvirate of late 19th and early 20th century British golfers, John Henry Taylor. The tournament was then cancelled for over a decade...
  
  
• 1958 News of the World Match Play, Swallow-Penfold Tournament, British Masters
• 1960 Swallow-Penfold Tournament, Spalding Tournament
• 1962 Swallow-Penfold Tournament
• 1968 Hennessy Tournament

Results in major championships

Note: Weetman only played in The Open Championship and the Masters Tournament.

Tournament	1949	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP
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...	CUT	CUT	T6	T15	T14	CUT	T5	T10	T12	T8	T16

Tournament	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968
Masters Tournament	T34	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
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...	T9	CUT	T12	CUT	T6	T29	WD	T31	T45

DNP = Did not play

CUT = Missed the half-way cut

WD = Withdrew

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Yellow background for top-10

Team appearances

• Ryder Cup
  Ryder Cup
  The Ryder Cup is a biennial golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States. The competition is jointly administered by the PGA of America and the PGA European Tour, and is contested every two years, the venue alternating between courses in the United States and Europe...
  
  : 1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965 (non-playing captain)
• Canada Cup: 1953, 1956, 1959 1960 (runners-up)

External links

• Golf Observer golfstats for record in major championships
• Ryder Cup record
• where2golf.com