Art Wall Jr.

Art Wall Jr.
Personal information
Full name	Arthur Jonathan Wall Jr.
Born	(1923-11-25)November 25, 1923 Honesdale, Pennsylvania
Died	October 31, 2001(2001-10-31) (aged 77) Scranton, Pennsylvania
Nationality	United States
Spouse	Jean Louise Miller Wall (1923–2004)
Children	2 sons, 3 daughters
Career
College	Duke University
Status	Professional
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour
Professional wins	29
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	14
Other	15
Best results in major championships (wins: 1)
Masters Tournament	Won: 1959
U.S. Open	T9: 1967
The Open Championship	DNP
PGA Championship	T5: 1961
Achievements and awards
PGA Player of the Year	1959
PGA Tour leading money winner	1959
Vardon Trophy	1959

Arthur Jonathan Wall Jr. (November 25, 1923 – October 31, 2001) was an American professional golfer.

Early years

Born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, Wall played collegiate golf at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina,^[1] and graduated in 1949 with a business degree.

PGA Tour

Wall won fourteen titles on the PGA Tour, including four in 1959. That year he was chosen as the PGA Player of the Year, and also won the money title and Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average.^[2] His most notable career achievement was his victory in 1959 at the Masters Tournament. In the final round, he birdied five of his last six holes to shoot a 66 and overtake Cary Middlecoff and defending champion Arnold Palmer.^[1] He was a member of three United States Ryder Cup teams: 1957, 1959, and 1961. Wall is also notable for sinking 45 holes-in-one in his playing career (including casual rounds), a world record for many years.^[2]^[3]

Final win

Wall's final tour win came at age 51 at the Greater Milwaukee Open in 1975, his first tour win in nine years.^[4]^[5] Since this win 42 years ago, no older player has won on tour; the closest was Fred Funk at age 50 in 2007. The oldest remains Sam Snead, who was nearly 53 in 1965 at his 82nd and final tour win at the Greater Greensboro Open.^[6]

Death

Wall died at age 77 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, of respiratory failure after a lengthy illness,^[1] and is buried at Glen Dyberry Cemetery in Honesdale.

Professional wins (29)

PGA Tour wins (14)

Legend
Major championships (1)
Other PGA Tour events (13)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	Aug 17, 1953	Fort Wayne Open	66-66-68-65=265	−23	Playoff	Cary Middlecoff
2	Apr 25, 1954	Tournament of Champions	69-66-70-73=278	−10	6 strokes	Al Besselink, Lloyd Mangrum
3	Sep 16, 1956	Fort Wayne Open	70-64-70-65=269	−19	Playoff	Gardner Dickinson, Bill Trombley
4	Mar 10, 1957	Pensacola Open Invitational	70-68-69-66=273	−15	2 strokes	Peter Thomson
5	Jul 6, 1958	Rubber City Open Invitational	65-67-68-69=269	−11	Playoff	Dow Finsterwald
6	Jul 27, 1958	Eastern Open Invitational	69-69-71-67=276	−12	Playoff	Jack Burke Jr., Bob Rosburg
7	Jan 18, 1959	Bing Crosby National Pro-Am	69-65-70-75=279	−9	2 strokes	Jimmy Demaret, Gene Littler
8	Mar 30, 1959	Azalea Open Invitational	72-66-71-73=282	−6	3 strokes	Mike Souchak
9	Apr 5, 1959	Masters Tournament	73-74-71-66=284	−4	1 stroke	Cary Middlecoff
10	Jul 6, 1959	Buick Open Invitational	71-67-72-72=282	−6	Playoff	Dow Finsterwald
11	Jul 9, 1960	Canadian Open	66-67-67-69=269	−19	6 strokes	Bob Goalby, Jay Hebert
12	Jan 12, 1964	San Diego Open Invitational	71-65-68-70=274	−6	2 strokes	Tony Lema, Bob Rosburg
13	Aug 21, 1966	Insurance City Open Invitational	65-64-69-68=266	−18	2 strokes	Wes Ellis
14	Jul 5, 1975	Greater Milwaukee Open	67-67-67-70=271	−17	1 stroke	Gary McCord

PGA Tour playoff record (5–5)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1953	Greater Greensboro Open	Doug Ford, Sam Snead, Earl Stewart	Stewart won with par on first extra hole after 18-hole playoff 18-hole playoff (Stewart:68, Snead:68, Ford:70, Wall:72)
2	1953	Fort Wayne Open	Cary Middlecoff	Won 18-hole playoff (Wall:70, Middlecoff:72)
3	1956	Fort Wayne Open	Gardner Dickinson, Bill Trombley	Wall won with birdie on first extra hole
4	1958	Rubber City Open Invitational	Dow Finsterwald	Won with birdie on second extra hole
5	1958	Eastern Open Invitational	Jack Burke Jr., Bob Rosburg	Wall won with birdie on first extra hole
6	1959	Buick Open Invitational	Dow Finsterwald	Won 18-hole playoff (Wall:71, Finsterwald:73)
7	1960	Western Open	Stan Leonard	Lost to birdie on first extra hole
8	1962	Insurance City Open Invitational	Bob Goalby	Lost to birdie on seventh extra hole
9	1967	Canadian Open	Billy Casper	Lost 18-hole playoff (Casper:65, Wall:69)
10	1971	Canadian Open	Lee Trevino	Lost to birdie on first extra hole

Major championship is shown in bold.

Other wins (13)

1956 Philadelphia PGA Championship
1962 Philadelphia PGA Championship
1963 Venezuela Open, Philadelphia PGA Championship
1964 Mexican Open, Maracaibo Open Invitational (Venezuela), Puerto Rico Open
1965 Panama Open, Maracaibo Open Invitational (Venezuela), Philadelphia PGA Championship
1966 Venezuela Open, Maracaibo Open Invitational (Venezuela)
1971 Philadelphia PGA Championship

Other senior wins (2)

1980 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Tommy Bolt)
1996 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf - Demaret Division (with Doug Ford)

Major championships

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	54 holes	Winning score	Margin	Runner-up
1959	Masters Tournament	6 shot deficit	−4 (73-74-71-66=284)	1 stroke	Cary Middlecoff

Results timeline

Tournament	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	38	CUT	T6	1
U.S. Open	47	T26	CUT	T16	CUT	CUT	DNP	WD
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	R32	R64	T11	T25

Tournament	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP	CUT	T21	CUT	T45	CUT	T49	T22	T40
U.S. Open	T43	DNP	T11	T40	DNP	DNP	DNP	T9	T50	DNP
PGA Championship	T39	T5	T23	T8	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT

Tournament	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
Masters Tournament	CUT	T27	CUT	T37	T37	T15	T28	T35	CUT	CUT
U.S. Open	DNP	CUT	DNP	T45	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	T24	DNP	DNP	T50	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988
Masters Tournament	51	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	DNP	CUT	CUT
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Note: Wall never played in The Open Championship.
DNP = Did not play
WD = Withdrew
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in PGA Championship match play
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

Summary

Tournament	Wins	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	1	1	2	5	30	15
U.S. Open	0	0	1	3	14	9
The Open Championship	0	0	0	0	0	0
PGA Championship	0	1	2	7	12	10
Totals	1	2	5	15	56	34

Most consecutive cuts made – 7 (1972 PGA – 1976 Masters)
Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (five times)

References

1 2 3 "Art Wall Jr. – Golfer, 77". The New York Times. November 1, 2001. Archived from the original on January 30, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2011.
1 2 "Art Wall Jr.". Autograph Magazine. Retrieved March 8, 2011.
↑ Kindred, Dave (October 8, 2007). Do you believe her?. ESPN.
↑ "Art Wall a winner at Milwaukee". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. (Florida). Associated Press. July 7, 1975. p. 1C.
↑ "I don't think 51 is old - golfer Art Wall". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. (Florida). Associated Press. July 7, 1975. p. 4C.
↑ "Snead eyes Masters title". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 5, 1965. p. 2B.

External links

Duke University Athletics Hall of Fame – Art Wall Jr.
Art Wall Jr. at Find a Grave

Masters Tournament champions

† indicates the event was won in a playoff; ‡ indicates the event was won wire-to-wire

PGA and PGA Tour Players of the Year

PGA Players of the Year

PGA Tour Players of the Year

Art Wall Jr. in the Ryder Cup

United States Ryder Cup team – 1957
Tommy Bolt Dow Finsterwald Doug Ford Ed Furgol Fred Hawkins Lionel Hebert Ted Kroll Dick Mayer Art Wall Jr. Jack Burke Jr. (playing captain)
Lost: 4.5 – 7.5

United States Ryder Cup team – 1959
Julius Boros Jack Burke Jr. Dow Finsterwald Doug Ford Jay Hebert Cary Middlecoff Bob Rosburg Mike Souchak Art Wall Jr. Sam Snead (playing captain)
Won: 8.5 – 3.5

United States Ryder Cup team – 1961
Billy Casper Bill Collins Dow Finsterwald Doug Ford Jay Hebert Gene Littler Arnold Palmer Mike Souchak Art Wall Jr. Jerry Barber (playing captain)
Won: 14.5 – 5.5

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