Kel Nagle

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Kelvin David George "Kel" Nagle (born December 21, 1920) is an Australian golfer best known for winning the British Open Championship in 1960.

Nagle was born in North Sydney. Although he had won some tournaments in Australia, and had won the World Cup of Golf for Australia in partnership with five times British Open champion Peter Thomson in 1954 and 1959, Nagle was a shock winner of The Open, as he was 39 years old but had never finished in the top ten at a major championship before. He beat the rising star of American golf Arnold Palmer into second place, and it was Palmer who deprived him of his title in 1961. Nagle never regained The Open title, but he put together a string of six further top ten finishes between 1961 and 1969. His best result in a United States major was second in the 1965 U.S. Open, the year after he won the Canadian Open.

[edit] Wins

This list may not be complete.

• 1949 Australian PGA Championship
• 1951 North Coast Open
• 1952 North Coast Open
• 1954 Australian PGA Championship, North Coast Open
• 1955 North Coast Open
• 1957 New South Wales Open, New Zealand Open, New Zealand PGA Championship
• 1958 New Zealand Open, New Zealand PGA Championship, Australian PGA Championship
• 1959 Australian Open, Australian PGA Championship
• 1960 The Open Championship, New Zealand PGA Championship
• 1961 French Open, Hong Kong Open, Swiss Open
• 1962 New Zealand Open
• 1964 Canadian Open, New Zealand Open
• 1965 Australian PGA Championship
• 1966 Wills Masters
• 1967 Victorian Open (Australia), New Zealand Open
• 1968 New South Wales Open, New Zealand Open, Australian PGA Championship
• 1969 New Zealand Open
• 1970 New Zealand PGA Championship
• 1973 New Zealand PGA Championship
• 1974 New Zealand PGA Championship
• 1975 New Zealand PGA Championship, South Coast Open

[edit] Senior wins

• 1971 World Seniors
• 1973 British Seniors
• 1975 British Seniors, World Seniors

[edit] Results in major championships

Tournament	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	T19	DNP	DNP	DNP	T19	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
The Masters	CUT	CUT	CUT	T35	T21	T15	CUT	T31	T30	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	T17	DNP	CUT	CUT	2	T34	T9	T52	CUT
The Open Championship	1	T5	2	4	45	T5	T4	T22	T13	9
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T20	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	T30	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	T32	T11	T31	T39	CUT	T40	CUT	DNP	CUT	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10