Talk:Frank Conner (golfer)

1971 Open Championship
Evidence that Frank Conner played in the 1971 Open Championship and missed the cut:
 * 1) From The Danville Register (July 9) (and several other newspapers) – "2nd Round British Open Scores: Failed to qualify: Frank Conner (USA) 74-78-152"
 * 2) From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (July 7) – "Frank Conner, U.S.: 38-36-74" and "Frank Conner, formerly of Belleville, Ill., and now of San Antonio, Tex., shot a first-round 74".
 * 3) From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (May 26) in a column about a local qualifier for the U.S. Open – "Yes, Virginia, the Frank Conner of San Antonio who grabbed a qualifying spot with a score of 151 is the same Frank Conner of Belleville who was a three-year tennis star at Trinity College (class of 1969) and the same stocky retriever who won the U.S. Indoor Junior tennis crown in St. Louis in 1964. He's a golfer now and will try to win his approved player's card at the Midwest Sectional tryout school in September at Quincy, Ill. After agonizing between tennis and golf as a tad at St. Clair Country Club for all those years, Conner opted golf by turning pro last October. "I was a golfer first," he pointed out yesterday. He's an assistant pro at Pecan Valley Country Club in San Antonio."

Clearly this is the same Frank Conner.

Evidence against:
 * 1) The Open's website has "Frank Connor" shooting 74-78-152 to miss the cut.
 * 2) Conner's PGA Tour page doesn't have him playing any PGA Tour events in 1971.

1 is simply a typo on the Open's site. 2 is not surprising because Conner wasn't a PGA Tour player in 1971 and the Open wasn't a PGA Tour recognized event in 1971.

For what it's worth, because Belleville, Illinois is a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, there is a lot of coverage of Frank Conner playing tennis and golf in the St. Louis newspapers. Conner missed qualifying for the 1971 U.S. Open by one stroke.

Unless someone provides solid evidence that this is a different Frank Conner/Connor, I'll restore the entry in his major results section. Tewapack (talk) 05:30, 26 May 2020 (UTC)