Bill Mehlhorn
Summary
Near misses
- 1925 PGA Championship Olympia Fields Country Club · runner-up to Walter Hagen · lost the final 6 & 5
- 1926 The Open Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club · finished T8 · 303
- 1928 The Open Royal St George's Golf Club · finished 9 · 302
Ryder Cup
1 Cups, 2 matches: 1 won, 1 lost, 0 halved, 1 points. Foursomes 0-1-0, four-ball 0-0-0, singles 1-0-0.
- 1927 Worcester Country Club USA · USA won 9.5–2.5 · 1-1-0, 1 point
Rivals
Beat him
Ryder Cup partners
Ryder Cup opponents
Next in the chain: Walter Hagen's rivals →
Results by championship
Best day
1925 PGA Championship
Runner-up to Walter Hagen.
Chosen by rule: the most recent of the best major finishes. Year page: 1925.
Career line, 1925–1928
4 results. Hover or tap a mark; click it for the year.
- Runner-up
- Top 10
- Ryder Cup, USA
Bill Mehlhorn was born in 1898 in Elgin, Illinois. Mehlhorn's best major finish was second, at the 1925 PGA Championship. Mehlhorn played in 1 Ryder Cup for USA (1927), winning 1, losing 1 and halving 0 of 2 matches for 1 point.
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The record
Near misses
Top-10 finishes are listed for The Open, the one championship with a full top 10 every year.
- 1925 PGA Championship Olympia Fields Country Club · runner-up to Walter Hagen · lost the final 6 & 5
- 1926 The Open Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club · finished T8 · 303
- 1928 The Open Royal St George's Golf Club · finished 9 · 302
Ryder Cup
Mehlhorn played 1 Ryder Cups for USA: 2 matches, 1 won, 1 lost, 0 halved, 1 points (50.0% of those available). By format: foursomes 0-1-0, four-ball 0-0-0, singles 1-0-0 (won-lost-halved).
- 1927 Worcester Country Club USA · USA won 9.5–2.5 · 1-1-0, 1 point
Partners, with matches played together: Leo Diegel (1).
PGA Championship match play
Every recorded match in our bracket file, 1916–1957: 11 won, 12 lost, including 0 of 1 finals.
- 1919 Round of 32 lost to Tom Kerrigan 3 & 2
- 1920 Round of 32 beat Wallie Nelson 3 & 2
- 1920 Round of 16 lost to Bob MacDonald 1 up
- 1924 Round of 32 lost to Francis Gallett 4 & 3
- 1925 Round of 32 beat Emmett French 5 & 4
- 1925 Round of 16 beat Al Espinosa 1 up
- 1925 Quarterfinal beat Tom Kerrigan 7 & 6
- 1925 Semifinal beat Mortie Dutra 8 & 6
- 1925 Final lost to Walter Hagen 6 & 5
- 1927 Round of 32 lost to Willie Klein 1 up
- 1928 Round of 32 lost to Gene Sarazen 3 & 2
- 1929 Round of 32 beat Guy Paulsen 7 & 6
- 1929 Round of 16 lost to Al Espinosa won on 40th hole
- 1930 Round of 32 lost to Harry Cooper 2 & 1
- 1931 Round of 32 beat Leo Diegel 3 & 2
- 1931 Round of 16 lost to Abe Espinosa 2 & 1
- 1934 Round of 32 lost to Harry Cooper 4 & 2
- 1936 Round of 64 beat Neil Christian 6 & 5
- 1936 Round of 32 beat Dick Metz won on 23rd hole
- 1936 Round of 16 beat Ed Dudley 6 & 4
- 1936 Quarterfinal beat Jimmy Hines 4 & 2
- 1936 Semifinal lost to Denny Shute 1 up
- 1937 Round of 64 lost to Al Watrous won on 23rd hole
Sources
Elsewhere: Wikipedia.
Every fact on this page comes from Golf Network News data sets compiled in October 2026 (Masters, PGA Championship, The Open, U.S. Women's Open, Ryder Cup, PGA Tour 2024–2026, major host sites, Champions Dinner menus, and the U.S. Open and state rooms). These are the sources those rows cite.