David Huish

David Huish
Personal information
Full name	David Huish
Born	23 April 1944 (1944-04-23) (age 67) North Berwick, Scotland
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Nationality	Scotland
Residence	North Berwick, Scotland
Career
Turned professional	1959
Retired	2009
Former tour(s)	European Tour European Seniors Tour
Professional wins	16
Number of wins by tour
European Seniors Tour	5
Other	11
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	T21: 1976
PGA Championship	DNP

David Huish (born 23 April 1944) is a Scottish professional golfer, perhaps best known for being the halfway leader of The Open Championship in 1975.

Personal life

Huish (pronounced "hush") was born in North Berwick, Scotland. He married his second wife Diane in 1989 with whom he had a son, Oliver, in 1990. He also has two children from a previous marriage, Susan (b.1967) and Martyn (1969).

Career

Huish turned professional in 1959, with his first job being as an assistant at Gullane. He took up his first head professional position at Hamilton Golf Club in 1965. Two years later later returned to his home town to take up the same role at North Berwick Golf Club, where he remained until his retirement in 2009.^[1] He was succeeded by his son, Martyn.

As a club professional, Huish never followed a full time tournament career. Although he was regarded as a competent tournament player, it was not until The Open Championship in 1975 that he came to the attention of a wider audience. After qualifying for the championship in a seven man play-off, he shot rounds of 67 and 69 at Carnoustie to lead by two strokes over Tom Watson, Peter Oosterhuis and Bernard Gallacher at the halfway mark. However, he fell away over the weekend and ultimately finished 13 shots off the pace, in a tie for 32nd place.^[2] His best finish in the Open came the following year at Birkdale, when he tied for 21st place.

While Huish never won a top flight tour event, he did win many other tournaments, including the Scottish Uniroyal in 1971, and the Northern Open on four occasions. After turning 50, he joined the European Seniors Tour, where he enjoyed some success, claiming five victories, four of them in play-offs, with the last coming in 2001 when he won, again in a play-off, at the Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors Open in Switzerland.

Huish later become a very significant and respected figure on the inside of professional golf, serving as the PGA Captain, a PGA Board Member and Ryder Cup Committee Member, a position he held longer than anyone else. In recognition of his achievements in the game, Huish received the Special Award at the Seniors Tour annual awards dinner in 2004 for services to golf.

Professional wins (16)

Regular wins (11)

• 1965 Scottish Assistants Championship
• 1971 Scottish Uniroyal
• 1973 Northern Open
• 1975 PGA Club Professionals Championship, Scottish Professional Championship
• 1977 PGA Club Professionals Championship
• 1980 Northern Open
• 1984 Northern Open
• 1985 Sunderland of Scotland Masters
• 1986 PGA Club Professionals Championship
• 1988 Northern Open

European Seniors Tour wins (5)

• 1996 Ryder Collingtree Seniors Classic
• 1998 Scottish Seniors Open
• 2000 Lawrence Batley Seniors, Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors Open
• 2001 Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors Open

Results in major championships

Tournament	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	T31	CUT	DNP	DNP	CUT	T56	DNP	T32	T21	CUT
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1969)
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

References

1. ^ "Retirement beckons for Huish, club pro who led in '75". The Scotsman. 21 April 2009. http://sport.scotsman.com/sport/Retirement-beckons-for-Huish-club.5187914.jp. Retrieved 2009-06-20. 
2. ^ "1975 Open became hell, but I've got no regrets, recounts David Huish". The Scotsman. 16 April 2009. http://sport.scotsman.com/sport/Golf-1975-Open-became-hell.5175731.jp. Retrieved 2009-06-20. 

External links

• David Huish at the European Tour official site

Persondata
Name	Huish, David
Alternative names
Short description	Professional golfer
Date of birth	23 April 1944
Place of birth	North Berwick, Scotland
Date of death
Place of death