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Edgar Rice Updegraff (March 1, 1922 — December 23, 2022) was an American amateur golfer and urologist.

Undegraff was born in Boone, Iowa, and is a descendent of the German Op den Graeff family.

Contents

1 Biography

1.1 Medical career

1.2 Sporting career

2 Amateur wins

3 U.S. national team appearances

4 References

Biography

Medical career

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.

Sporting career

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.

As of June 2021, Updegraff lived at Saddlebrooke Ranch. He turned 100 in March 2022.

Amateur wins

1940 Northwest Amateur

1941 Northwest Amateur

1947 Northwest Amateur

1952 Arizona Amateur

1954 Southwestern Amateur

1955 Southwestern Amateur, Arizona Amateur

1957 Western Amateur

1959 Western Amateur

1961 Southwestern Amateur, Arizona Amateur

1962 Sunnehanna Amateur

1967 Pacific Coast Amateur

1969 Southwestern Amateur, Arizona Amateur

1981 U.S. Senior Amateur

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U.S. national team appearances

Walker Cup: 1963 (winners), 1965 (tied, cup retained), 1969 (winners), 1975 (winners, non-playing captain)

Americas Cup: 1963 (winners), 1967 (winners, non-playing captain)