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'''Kenneth Bousfield''' (2 October 1919 – 25 May 2000<ref>"Ken Bousfield - Winner of 19 professional golf championships in six years" ''The Times'', 2 June 2000.</ref>) was one of the leading [[United Kingdom|British]] [[golf]]ers of the immediate post-[[World War II]] period.<ref name=alliss>{{cite book |title=The Who's Who of Golf |first=Peter |last=Alliss |authorlink=Peter Alliss |publisher=[[Orbis Publishing]] |year=1983 |isbn=0-85613-520-8 |page=213}}</ref>

== Professional career ==
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]]. 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 [[PGA European Tour|European Tour]] was formed in 1972, but he played on it until 1976. 

Bousfield also played for Great Britain in the [[Ryder Cup]] six times (1949, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961) and had a 5-5-0 win–loss–draw record.

==Professional wins (19)==

===Regular wins (18)===
:''This list is probably incomplete.''
*1951 Southern Professional Championship, [[News Chronicle Tournament]]
*1955 [[British PGA Championship]], [[News of the World Match Play]], [[German Open (golf)|German Open]]
*1956 [[Yorkshire Evening News Tournament]] (tie with [[Dai Rees]])
*1957 [[Dunlop Tournament (United Kingdom)|Dunlop Tournament]], Southern Professional Championship
*1958 [[Belgian Open (golf)|Belgian Open]], [[Swiss Open]]
*1959 [[Sprite Tournament]], [[German Open (golf)|German Open]]
*1960 [[Portuguese Open]]
*1961 [[Portuguese Open]], [[Swallow-Penfold Tournament]]
*1964 [[Ryder Cup Reunion Foursomes Tournament]] (with [[Alex Caygill]]),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian/133472537 |title=Bousfield and Caygill win by two strokes |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=14 September 1964 |page=14 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> [[Gleneagles Hotel Foursomes Tournament]] (with [[Keith Warren (golfer)|Keith Warren]])

===Senior wins (1)===
*1972 [[PGA Seniors Championship]]

==Results in major championships==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center;"
!Tournament
!1947
!1948
!1949
|-
|align=left|[[The Open Championship]]
|T27
|T21
|T11
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center;"
!Tournament
!1950
!1951
!1952
!1953
!1954
!1955
!1956
!1957
!1958
!1959
|-
|align=left|[[The Open Championship]]
|CUT
|CUT
|T21
|T34
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:yellow;"|T5
|T22
|T35
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|T11
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center;"
!Tournament
!1960
!1961
!1962
!1963
!1964
!1965
!1966
!1967
!1968
!1969
|-
|align=left|[[The Open Championship]]
|T21
|style="background:yellow;"|T8
|CUT
|T30
|CUT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|CUT
|54
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center;"
!Tournament
!1970
!1971
!1972
|-
|align=left|[[The Open Championship]]
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|CUT
|}
''Note: Bousfield only played in The Open Championship.''<br />
{{legend|yellow|Top 10}}
{{legend|#eeeeee|Did not play}}
CUT = missed the half-way cut<br />
"T" indicates a tie for a place

==Team appearances==
*[[Ryder Cup]] (representing Great Britain): [[1949 Ryder Cup|1949]], [[1951 Ryder Cup|1951]], [[1955 Ryder Cup|1955]], [[1957 Ryder Cup|1957]] (winners), [[1959 Ryder Cup|1959]], [[1961 Ryder Cup|1961]]
*[[World Cup (men's golf)|Canada Cup]] (representing England): [[1956 Canada Cup|1956]], [[1957 Canada Cup|1957]]
*[[Joy Cup]] (representing the British Isles): 1955 (winners), 1958 (winners)
*[[Amateurs–Professionals Match]] (representing the Professionals): 1957 (winners), 1958, 1959 (winners), 1960 (winners)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{EuroTour player|538}}

{{BMW PGA Championship champions}}
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{{1949 Great Britain Ryder Cup team}}
{{1951 Great Britain Ryder Cup team}}
{{1955 Great Britain Ryder Cup team}}
{{1957 Great Britain Ryder Cup team}}
{{1959 Great Britain Ryder Cup team}}
{{1961 Great Britain Ryder Cup team}}
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[[Category:Ryder Cup competitors for Europe]]
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[[Category:2000 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century English sportsmen]]


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