Philip Hugh Rodgers (1891 – 1 August 1966) was an English

professional golfer A professional golfer is somebody who receives payments or financial rewards in the sport of golf that are directly related to their skill or reputation. A person who earns money by teaching or playing golf is traditionally considered a "golf pr ...

who played in the early 20th century. Rodgers' best performance came in the

1927 Open Championship The 1927 Open Championship was the 62nd Open Championship, held 13–15 July at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. Amateur Bobby Jones successfully defended the title with a dominating six-stroke victory, the second of his three victories ...

when he tied for tenth place.

Early life

Rodgers was born in

Sandycroft Sandycroft is a village in Flintshire, Wales, approximately southeast of Queensferry and southwest of Chester, on the B5129 road between Queensferry and Broughton. The community population taken at the 2011 census was 6,724. Railway sta ...

Hawarden Hawarden (; cy, Penarlâg) is a village, community (Wales), community and Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral ward in Flintshire, Wales. It is part of the Deeside conurbation on the Wales-England border and is home ...

, Flintshire, Wales in 1891, the son of Walter Ernest Rodgers.

Golf career

1927 Open Championship

The 1927 Open Championship was the 62nd Open Championship, held 13–15 July at the Old Course at St Andrews in

St Andrews, Scotland St Andrews ( la, S. Andrea(s); sco, Saunt Aundraes; gd, Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's fourt ...

. Amateur Bobby Jones successfully defended the title with a dominating six stroke victory, the second of his three victories at the Open Championship. Rodgers had rounds of 76-73-74-77=300 and tied for tenth place with three other players. He won £8 in prize money.

1929 News of the World Matchplay

Rodgers was runner-up to Abe Mitchell in the 1929

News of the World Matchplay The British PGA Matchplay Championship was a match play golf tournament that began in 1903 and ran until 1979. Between 1903 and 1969, the event was sponsored by the now defunct British newspaper the ''News of the World'', and was commonly known b ...

at Wentworth, losing 8 & 7 in the final. In 1932 he won the

Northern Professional Championship The Northern Professional Championship was a professional golf tournament played in Northern England. The event was generally a regional tournament but from 1923 and 1927 and in 1936 it was an open event with significant prize money. The event w ...

, scoring 298 and winning by a stroke from D. C. Jones.

Death

Rodgers died in

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, Lancashire, on 1 August 1966 aged 74.

Tournament wins

* 1932

Results in major championships

''Note: Rodgers only played in The Open Championship.''
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rodgers, Philip English male golfers People from Hawarden Sportspeople from Flintshire 1891 births 1966 deaths