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Ross Somerville
Personal information
Full name	Charles Ross Somerville
Nickname	Sandy
Born	(1903-05-04)May 4, 1903 London, Ontario, Canada
Died	May 17, 1991(1991-05-17) (aged 88)
Sporting nationality	Canada
Career
College	University of Toronto
Status	Amateur
Best results in major championships (wins: 1)
Masters Tournament	T36: 1938
PGA Championship	DNP
U.S. Open	CUT: 1929
The Open Championship	T28: 1933
U.S. Amateur	Won: 1932
British Amateur	T3: 1938

Charles Ross "Sandy" Somerville (May 4, 1903 – May 17, 1991) was a Canadian golfer and all-around athlete.

Somerville was born in London, Ontario. He won six Canadian Amateur Championship golf titles between 1926 and 1937, and in 1932 became the first Canadian to win the U.S. Amateur. He was selected by the Canadian Press as Canada's athlete of the year for 1932, and in 1950 was picked as Canada's top golfer of the first half of the 20th century.

While at the University of Toronto, Somerville played for three years for the Varsity Blues football team and Varsity Blues men's ice hockey team (1921–24). He was also one of Canada's leading cricketers earning selection as a member of the Canadian side that toured England in 1922, his score of 92 against the Free Foresters being Canada's highest individual innings of the tour.

Later, Somerville won three Canadian senior golf titles. and served as president of the Royal Canadian Golf Association in 1957.

Somerville was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (1955), the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame (1985), the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame (1971), the U of T Sports Hall of Fame (1987) and the London (Ontario) Sports Hall of Fame (2002). He died at age 88 in 1991.

The London Hunt Club, Somerville's home course for most of his life, has a room in its clubhouse honouring Somerville's golf achievements.

Tournament wins

• 1926 Canadian Amateur
• 1926 Manitoba Amateur
• 1928 Canadian Amateur
• 1930 Canadian Amateur
• 1931 Canadian Amateur
• 1932 U.S. Amateur
• 1935 Canadian Amateur
• 1937 Canadian Amateur
• 1960 Canadian Senior Championship
• 1961 Canadian Senior Championship
• 1965 Canadian Senior Championship
• 1966 Canadian Senior Championship

Professional and amateur majors shown in bold.

Major championships

Amateur wins (1)

Year	Championship	Winning score	Runner-up
1932	U.S. Amateur	2 & 1	Johnny Goodman

Results timeline

Note: As an amateur, Somerville did play in the PGA Championship.

NYF = Tournament not yet founded
NT = No tournament
DNQ = Did not qualify for match play portion
R256, R128, R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Source for U.S. Amateur: USGA Championship Database

Source for 1933 British Open: www.opengolf.com

Source for 1933 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, June 23, 1933, pg. 20.

Source for 1934 & 1938 Masters: www.masters.com

Source for 1935 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, May 21, 1935, pg. 3.

Source for 1938 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, May 28, 1938, pg. 11.

References

1. "Obituaries in 1992". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. 1993. Retrieved 4 July 2024 – via ESPNcricinfo.

External links

• Silent Sandy, from Ontario Golf Magazine
• Profile at Canadian Golf Hall of Fame

• Canadian male golfers
• Amateur golfers
• Golfing people from Ontario
• Ridley College alumni
• Toronto Varsity Blues football players
• Toronto Varsity Blues ice hockey players
• Canadian football people from London, Ontario
• Ice hockey people from London, Ontario
• 1903 births
• 1991 deaths
• 20th-century Canadian sportsmen