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Mar 01, 1922 Boone, Iowa, United States 102 years old
Amateur golfer, urologist
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About Ed Updegraff
- Edgar Rice Updegraff (born March 1, 1922) is an American amateur golfer and urologist.Updegraff was born in Boone, Iowa and descendant of the German Op den Graeff family.
- He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Iowa State University and his medical degree from the University of Iowa.
- Unlike his father and brothers, who were otolaryngologists, Updegraff chose urology as a specialty.
- He eventually settled into practice in Tucson, Arizona in 1951, partially because of the opportunity to continue playing golf there.Updegraff had a long amateur career, winning many tournament on a local, state, and national scale, including the Western Amateur (1957, 1959), Sunnehanna Amateur (1962), Pacific Coast Amateur (1967), and U.S.
- Senior Amateur (1981).
- He was a semi-finalist at 1963 British Amateur.
- He played on three winning Walker Cup teams (1963, 1965, 1969) and captained the 1975 team to a win.
- He also finished in a tie for 4th place at the 1969 Tucson Open on the PGA Tour but failed to sign his scorecard and was disqualified.Updegraff received the Bob Jones Award from the United States Golf Association in 1999.
- He was inducted into the Arizona Golf Hall of Fame in 1969 and the Iowa Golf Association Hall of Fame in 2006.
