Ken Bousfield was one of the leading British

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 golf

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ers of the immediate post-World War II

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 period.

Bousfield won a number of tournaments on the European circuit in the 1950s and 1960s, including the British PGA Championship, which is the second most prestigious tournament in the United Kingdom after The Open Championship

The Open Championship

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. He had two top ten finishes at The Open Championship, finishing in a tie for fifth in 1955 and a tie for eighth in 1961. He was past his peak by the time the formal European Tour

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 was formed in 1972, but he played on it until 1976. He played for Great Britain in the Ryder Cup

Ryder Cup

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 six times (1949, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961) and had a 5-5-0 win-loss-draw record.

Regular wins (14)

This list is probably incomplete.

• 1955 British PGA Championship, News of the World Match Play, German Open
  German Open (golf)
  The German Open was a men's golf tournament. It was first staged in 1911 when the winner was Harry Vardon. The following year the champion was another of the Great Triumvirate of late 19th and early 20th century British golfers, John Henry Taylor. The tournament was then cancelled for over a decade...
  
  
• 1956 Yorkshire Evening News Tournament (tie with Dai Rees
  Dai Rees
  David James Rees, CBE was one of the Britain's leading golfers either side of World War II.The winner of many prestigious tournaments in Britain, Europe and farther afield, Rees is best remembered as the captain of the Great Britain Ryder Cup team which defeated the United States at Lindrick Golf...
  
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• 1957 Dunlop Tournament
• 1958 Belgian Open, Swiss Open
• 1959 Sprite Tournament, German Open
  German Open (golf)
  The German Open was a men's golf tournament. It was first staged in 1911 when the winner was Harry Vardon. The following year the champion was another of the Great Triumvirate of late 19th and early 20th century British golfers, John Henry Taylor. The tournament was then cancelled for over a decade...
  
  
• 1960 Portuguese Open
  Portuguese Open
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• 1961 Portuguese Open
  Portuguese Open
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  , Swallow-Penfold Tournament

Results in major championships

Note: Bousfield only played in The Open Championship

The Open Championship

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.

Tournament	1947	1948	1949
The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...	T27	T21	T11

Tournament	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959
The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...	CUT	CUT	T21	T34	DNP	T5	T22	T35	DNP	T11

Tournament	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...	T21	T8	CUT	T30	CUT	DNP	CUT	54	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1970	1971	1972
The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...	DNP	DNP	CUT

DNP = Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

"T" = tied

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