Mungo Park Jr.

Mungo Park Jr. (9 January 1877 – 12 February 1960) was a pioneer in South American golf and golf clubmaking. Park was also a successful golfer and golf course architect. He won the Argentine Open three times, including the inaugural championship in 1905. He was part of the famous Park family from Musselburgh that won a total seven Open Championships in the 19th century.

Early years and family Park was born in Musselburgh, Scotland (near Edinburgh) on 9 January 1877. His father, Willie, was one of Scotland's top golfers, who won the first Open Championship in 1860 and Mungo (nicknamed Mungo Jr., although that was not his father's name) learned golf from childhood. Willie Park Sr. won three more Open Championships. His uncle, Mungo, for whom Mungo "Jr." was named, also won the Open in 1874. His brother Willie Park Jr. was also an Open champion (1887 and 1889)

At age 19, in 1897, he went to New York, sailing on the RMS Teutonic, to open a branch of his brother's business but this only lasted one, or at most two, years as Mungo was advertising for a professional position for 1898. During his time in New York, he laid out the nine hole Dutchess Golf Club course at Poughkeepsie, New York in 1897 then began 1898 as the professional to the Dyker Meadow Club in Brooklyn, New York.

Park worked at Mount Anthony in Bennington, Vermont until the end of 1900, when he returned to Scotland to marry and take up the post of General Manager at Huntecombe, his brother Willie's enterprise in Oxfordshire.

Argentina By 1903, Park went to Argentina where golf was not new, there were already six courses and an amateur championship had been contested since 1895, and served as a professional. He won the country's first Argentine Open in 1905, a feat he repeated in 1907 and 1912, and laid out a course in Buenos Aires at San Andrés, in 1907. His wife, Grace, a formidable player over many years, was the country's first Ladies' Open champion.

Family Park married Grace Morrison in 1901. They had three children Mungo III, Catherine and Jack. Grace was a useful golfer. In May 1902 she played for Scotland against Ireland and England in international matches at Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club and reached the semi-final of the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship the following week. She won the Argentine Ladies Open in 1904, 1909 and 1910. Catherine, known as Katie, was also a Scottish international golfer.

Results in major championships Note: Park played only in The Open Championship and U.S. Open.

DNP = Did not play CUT = Missed the cut WD = Withdrew