Eddie Loos

Edward Wallace Neal Loos (July 31, 1893 – July 9, 1950) was an American professional golfer who played in the early-to-mid 20th century. His best performance in a major golf championship was a T10 finish in the 1924 U.S. Open. He won the 1917 Shawnee Open, the 1921 California State Open, and the Illinois PGA Championship in 1922 and 1924. Loos was a frequent competitor in the PGA Championship, last playing in 1935. He had 13 second-place finishes on the PGA Tour after 1915.

Early life Loos was born July 31, 1893, in New York City. He first played golf and also worked as a caddy at the Van Cortlandt Park Golf Course in the Bronx as a teenager. In 1918 he left the cricket club to join the navy and after the war played exhibition matches with Jim Barnes before moving to Chicago where he was hired at Beverly Country Club. While posted as professional at Pasadena Country Club in March 1921, he won the California State Open beating John Black and Macdonald Smith by 3 and 4 shots, respectively. In the winter in the mid-1920s he worked as professional at the Cleveland Heights Country Club in Lakeland, Florida.

In August 1917 Loos won the Shawnee Open with rounds of 69-74-75-72=290 (+2) beating runner-up Emmett French by seven strokes and won $250—plus $25 for the tournament's low round—and a gold medal. He won the same event again in 1924 at Glen Flora Country Club in Waukegan, Illinois, battling rain and high winds in the process.

On July 20, 1919, Loos partnered with Jim Barnes in a match play event contested at the Donald Ross-designed Beverly Country Club course in Chicago against Jock Hutchison and Bob MacDonald. Loos, playing on what was at the time his home course, shot a 68 after getting off to a slow start. The other cards were: Barnes (73); MacDonald (72); Hutchison (73). Loos and Barnes won the match 4 and 3. Dudley, however, didn't necessarily win because someone else lost—he shot a 68 in the final round,

Family His son, Charles H. "Chuck" Loos (died 2015), was a former managing editor of the Daily Pilot (formerly the Orange Coast Daily Pilot) newspaper.

Tournament wins PGA Tour wins (3) 1917 Shawnee Open 1922 Illinois PGA Championship Source: 1923 St. Joseph Tournament 1924 Illinois PGA Championship

Results in major championships Note: Loos never played in the Masters Tournament or The Open Championship.

? = unknown CUT = missed the half-way cut R32, R16, QF, SF = round in which player lost in PGA Championship match play "T" indicates a tie for a place