{{Short description|Scottish-Canadian golfer}} {{Infobox golfer | name = Willie Lamb | image = | imagesize = <!-- e.g. 250px (default is 200px) --> | caption = | fullname = William Lamb | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|12|15}} | birth_place = Montrose, Angus, Scotland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|1|28|1902|12|15}} | death_place = St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S. | height = <!-- {{height|ft=|in=}} OR {{height|m=|precision=0}} --> | weight = <!-- {{convert| |lb|kg st|abbr=on}} OR {{convert| |kg|lb st|abbr=on}} --> | nationality = {{SCO}}<br/>{{CAN}} | residence = | spouse = | partner = | children = | college = | status = Professional | yearpro = <!-- Year turned professional --> | retired = <!-- Year retired --> | tour = <!-- Current tours which a member of --> | extour = | prowins = 11 | pgawins = <!-- Number of PGA Tour wins --> | eurowins = <!-- Number of European Tour wins --> | japwins = <!-- Number of Japan Golf Tour wins --> | asiawins = <!-- Number of Asian Tour wins --> | sunwins = <!-- Number of Sunshine Tour wins --> | auswins = <!-- Number of PGA Tour of Australasia wins --> | nwidewins = <!-- Number of Nationwide Tour wins --> | chalwins = <!-- Number of Challenge Tour wins --> | champwins = <!-- Number of Champions Tour wins --> | seneurowins = <!-- Number of European Seniors Tour wins --> | otherwins = <!-- Number of Other wins --> | majorwins = <!-- Number of Major Championship wins --> | masters = <!-- Best finish & year – Masters Tournament --> | usopen = <!-- Best finish & year – U.S. Open --> | open = <!-- Best finish & year – Open Championship --> | pga = <!-- Best finish & year – PGA Championship --> | wghofid = <!-- World Golf Hall of Fame member ID --> | wghofyear = <!-- World Golf Hall of Fame year inducted --> | award1 = Canadian Golf<br/>Hall of Fame | year1 = 1985 | award2 = | year2 = | awardssection = <!-- location of awards page or section --> }} '''William Lamb''' (December 15, 1902 – January 28, 1969) was a Scottish-Canadian professional golfer.
Lamb was born in Montrose, Scotland. Having moved to Canada in 1924, he had a successful tournament career, highlighted by winning the Canadian PGA Championship on five occasions, in 1928, 1929, 1930, 1933, and 1935. He also won the Millar Trophy, originally awarded for the Ontario PGA Match Play championship and later the Canadian PGA Match Play, in 1930 and the open championships of Ontario and Quebec.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://heritage.golfcanada.ca/hall-of-fame-members/willie-lamb/ |title=William (Willie) Lamb |website=Golf Canada |accessdate=March 30, 2020}}</ref>
Lamb has been widely recognised for his achievement and contributions to golf, highlighted by his induction into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1985. He has also been inducted into the halls of fame of the PGA of Canada and Ontario Golf.
Lamb served as the head professional at several golf clubs in Ontario, most notably at Lambton Golf Club in Toronto, where he remained for 30 years until his retirement in 1964.<ref>{{cite news |title=Once pro golfer, W. Lamb dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47670668/ |date=January 30, 1969 |page=37 |agency=CP |newspaper=The Windsor Star |location=Ontario, Canada |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=March 30, 2020}}</ref>
==Professional wins== * 1924 Mexican Open * 1928 Canadian PGA Championship * 1929 Canadian PGA Championship * 1930 Canadian PGA Championship, Millar Trophy * 1931 Quebec Open * 1932 Ontario Open, Quebec Open * 1933 Canadian PGA Championship, Quebec Open * 1935 Canadian PGA Championship
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==External links== * [https://heritage.golfcanada.ca/hall-of-fame-members/willie-lamb/ Willie Lamb] at the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame website * [http://www.pgaofcanadahalloffame.com/hall-fame-members/willie-lamb/ Willie Lamb] at the PGA of Canada Hall of Fame website * [https://gao.ca/about-us/ontario-golf-hall-of-fame/ontario-golf-hall-of-fame-member-bios/william-lamb-class-of-2000/ Willie Lamb] at the Golf Ontario Hall of Fame website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lamb, Willie}} Category:Canadian male golfers Category:Golfers from Angus, Scotland Category:Golf people from Ontario Category:Sportspeople from Montrose, Angus Category:Scottish emigrants to Canada Category:1902 births Category:1969 deaths Category:20th-century Canadian sportsmen