Full name Norman Guy Von Nida The Open Championship T3: 1948 Nationality Australia PGA Championship DNP PGA tour of australasia wins 30 | Name Norman Nida Professional wins 46 U.S. Open T59: 1939 Role Golfer Turned professional 1933 | |
Born 14 February 1914
Strathfield, Australia ( 1914-02-14 ) Died May 20, 2007, Gold Coast, Australia Books The Australian Golfer's Companion | ||
Masters Tournament T27: 1950, 1952 Former tours PGA Tour of Australasia | ||
Norman von nida
Norman Guy Von Nida (14 February 1914 – 20 May 2007) was an Australian professional golfer.
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Von Nida was born in Strathfield and grew up in Brisbane. He turned professional in 1933, after attracting attention by winning the Queensland Amateur aged just 18. He became one of Australia's finest professional golfers, and the first Australian to win regularly on the British tour, although World War II certainly deprived him of competition during what might have been his peak years. In 1946 he travelled to Britain for the first time and finished second on the Order of Merit; in 1947, he returned and won seven tournaments and topped the Order of Merit. He was renowned for his short temper - at a tournament in 1948 he became involved in an argument with future U.S. Ryder Cup player Henry Ransom that resulted in the local sheriff having to pull them apart, and he was also known to hurl his putter into the undergrowth after missing putts, on occasions breaking or even losing them mid-round.
The PGA Tour of Australasia's developmental tour is named the Von Nida Tour after him.
Von Nida died in a Gold Coast, Queensland nursing home, aged 93.
Tournament wins (46)
Results in major championships
Note: Von Nida never played in the PGA Championship.
NT = No tournament
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
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