Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame

Dr. Cary Middlecoff

(1921-1998)

     

      



  

%    Cary Middlecoff won the Tennessee State Amateur four straight years (1940, 1941, 1942 & 1943). Four in a row had never been done before or since

%    He won the 1949 & 1956 US Open Championships

%    He won the Masters in 1955 and the Vardon Cup scoring average trophy in 1956

%    He played on three Ryder Cup teams (1953, 1955, 1959)

%    He is a member of the PGA World Golf Hall of Fame, the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, the Mississippi Hall of Fame, and the Ole Miss Sports Hall of Fame

%    Doc Middlecoff was inducted as a charter member of the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame in 1992

Cary Middlecoff, born in Halls, Tennessee, abandoned dentistry to become one of the world’s premier golfers. He won 37 PGA Tour events.  He was the leading money winner in the 1950’s decade.  After his retirement in 1963 he became a successful TV commentator.  Golf House Tennessee houses the most memorabilia of Middlecoff’s anywhere in the United States. Luckily most of The Middlecoff’s golf mementoes had been given to the museum shortly before their home was destroyed by fire in 1955.