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Horton Smith Springfield 1908-1963 Winner of the 1St & 3Rd Masters Horton Smith Springfield 1908-1963 Winner of the 1st & 3rd Masters. Bobby Jones & Horton Smith at the Masters Horton Smith Horton Smith, Byron Nelson, Gene Sarazen, Henry Picard, Ralph Guldahl. Winners of the first six Masters, 1934-1939 Horton Smith won the 1934 and 1936 Masters Invitational. Walter Hagen & 1934 Masters payout. Note Kansas Horton Smith, 1929 City’s “Jug” McSpaden in 7th place. Horton Smith grew up on a farm seven During his peak playing years Smith From 1932-1936 he represented Oak miles from the center of Springfield. Today, wrote a golf instructional column that ap- Park CC near Chicago, Illinois. He still lived that land is about fifty yards from the 8th tee peared in newspapers nationwide. One such in Springfield while representing the Chicago at Highland Springs CC. In 1925 he and his column was titled “ How to play mashie club on the PGA tour. brother Ren traveled to Kansas City to play shots.” Horton was a rarity among pros at Smith was on five Ryder Cup teams from in the Missouri Amateur. The 17 year-old the time: he had attended college; Southwest 1929-1937, with a 3-0-1 record. He enlisted Horton lost to Eliot Whitbread in the second Missouri State in Springfield. in the U.S. Army in 1942 and served until round. Before the stock market crash in October 1945, discharged as a Captain in special In 1926 Horton turned professional and of October of 1929, Smith won eight of the services. was at the Springfield CC as an assistant. For 22 pro tournaments he entered, finishing He represented the Detroit GC from the 1927 season he was the head pro at both second six times. In February, 1930 he beat 1946-1963. President of the PGA 1952-54, the Sedalia and Jefferson City Country Clubs. Bobby Jones by a stroke at the Savannah he was elected into the World Golf Hall of In 1928 and 1929 he was the head pro at Open. It was the last loss Jones suffered, as Fame in 1990. Joplin’s Oak Hill CC, now Twin Hills. he retired after achieving the Grand Slam that Smith died of Hodgkins lymphoma in Smith and Walter Hagen staged an exhi- year. Detroit in 1963. He is buried in Springfield. bition in Jefferson City on October 1, 1929. Horton Smith’s overall professional ca- On Oct. 1-2, 2019 Horton Smith and a gallery estimated at 500 followed them reer record was 32 wins and 37 second place Karen MacGee will be inducted into the around the 9 hole Jefferson City Country finishes. He was the leading money winner MGA Hall of Fame. Club course. Hagen shot 70, Smith 72. on the tour in 1936 with $7,682. Horton Smith Smith was 3nd In this era of the 1920s was sometimes in the 1930 and 30s the PGA tour was in it’s referred to as and 1940 U.S. infancy. Pros played the tour in the the anti-Hagen. Opens. winter months in Florida and Cali- He neither fornia. In the summer they would smoked nor He was 4th in be at their home course or at the drank, as Walter the 1930 British major tournaments: the U.S. Open, Hagen was Open. PGA and British Open. known to do..
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