This article is about the early 20th century golfer. For his grandson and current golfer, see Tommy Armour III.
Tommy Armour
Armour in 1927
Personal information
Full name
Thomas Dickson Armour
Nickname
The Silver Scot
Born
(1896-09-24)24 September 1896 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died
11 September 1968(1968-09-11) (aged 71) Larchmont, New York, US
Sporting nationality
Scotland United States
Career
College
University of Edinburgh
Turned professional
1924
Former tour(s)
PGA Tour
Professional wins
27
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour
25
Other
2
Best results in major championships (wins: 3)
Masters Tournament
T8: 1937
PGA Championship
Won: 1930
U.S. Open
Won: 1927
The Open Championship
Won: 1931
U.S. Amateur
T5: 1920
British Amateur
T33: 1920, 1921
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame
1976 (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]
^"Births in the District of Newington in the City of Edinburgh". Statutory Births 685/05 1134. ScotlandsPeople. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
^Barkow, Al (1998). Golf Legends of All Time. Publications International. ISBN 978-0785328483.
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