Cyril Tolley
Summary
Wins
- 1920 The Amateur Championship Muirfield · 37 holes
- 1929 The Amateur Championship Royal St George's Golf Club · 4 & 3
Results by championship
Best day
1920 The Amateur
Muirfield · won 37 holes
As the championship resumed after the war, Cyril Tolley beat American Robert A. Gardner at the 37th hole at Muirfield.
Chosen by rule: the first championship title. Year page: 1920.
Career line, 1920–1929
2 results. Hover or tap a mark; click it for the year.
- Other win
Cyril Tolley was born on September 14, 1895, in Brockley, England. Tolley won the 1920 The Amateur and the 1929 The Amateur.
See Cyril Tolley in our rooms: The Open, Every Ground, U.S. Amateur and The Amateur Championship.
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The record
Amateur titles (2)
- 1920 The Amateur Championship Muirfield · 37 holes
- 1929 The Amateur Championship Royal St George's Golf Club · 4 & 3
Profile
Researched for this card in October 2026; each line names the page it comes from.
Full name
- Cyril James Hastings Tolley Wikipedia
Status
- amateur Wikipedia
Died in
- Eastbourne, England Wikipedia
Beyond our rooms
- 1922 Walker Cup team (Great Britain & Ireland)
- 1923 Walker Cup team (Great Britain & Ireland)
- 1924 Walker Cup team (Great Britain & Ireland)
- 1926 Walker Cup team (Great Britain & Ireland)
- 1930 Walker Cup team (Great Britain & Ireland)
- 1934 Walker Cup team (Great Britain & Ireland)
- 1921 Great Britain vs USA team (Great Britain)
- 1922 England–Scotland Amateur Match team (England)
- 1923 England–Scotland Amateur Match team (England)
- 1924 England–Scotland Amateur Match team (England)
- 1925 England–Scotland Amateur Match team (England)
- 1926 England–Scotland Amateur Match team (England)
- 1927 England–Scotland Amateur Match team (England)
- 1928 England–Scotland Amateur Match team (England)
- 1929 England–Scotland Amateur Match team (England)
- 1930 England–Scotland Amateur Match team (England)
- 1921 Welsh Open Amateur winner
- 1923 Golf Illustrated Gold Vase winner
- 1923 Welsh Open Amateur winner
- 1924 French Open winner
Source: Wikipedia: Cyril Tolley
Known for
- Major Cyril James Hastings Tolley MC (14 September 1895 – 18 May 1978) was a British amateur golf champion and briefly a Liberal Party politician. Wikipedia
Sources
Elsewhere: Wikipedia · Wikidata.
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.