Tommy Armour

Tommy Armour
Armour in 1927
Personal information
Full nameThomas Dickson Armour
NicknameThe Silver Scot
Born(1896-09-24)24 September 1896
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died11 September 1968(1968-09-11) (aged 71)
Larchmont, New York, US
Sporting nationality Scotland
 United States
Career
CollegeUniversity of Edinburgh
Turned professional1924
Former tour(s)PGA Tour
Professional wins27
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour25
Other2
Best results in major championships
(wins: 3)
Masters TournamentT8: 1937
PGA ChampionshipWon: 1930
U.S. OpenWon: 1927
The Open ChampionshipWon: 1931
U.S. AmateurT5: 1920
British AmateurT33: 1920, 1921
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame1976 (member page)

Thomas Dickson Armour (24 September 1896[1] – 11 September 1968) was a Scottish-American professional golfer. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot. He was the winner of three of golf's major championships: 1927 U.S. Open, 1930 PGA, and 1931 Open Championship. Armour popularized the term yips, the colloquial term for a sudden and unexplained loss of skills in experienced athletes.[2]

  1. ^ "Births in the District of Newington in the City of Edinburgh". Statutory Births 685/05 1134. ScotlandsPeople. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  2. ^ Barkow, Al (1998). Golf Legends of All Time. Publications International. ISBN 978-0785328483.