Shelley Mayfield

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American golf course architect and professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s. Mayfield was a star athlete in several sports at Seguin High School including golf, which he began playing at age 14. His team won several state championships under coach W.A. "Lefty" Stackhouse. Mayfield became a golf professional at the age of 24. Like most professional golfers of his generation, he earned his living primarily as a club pro. Mayfield won three PGA Tour events during his career. His best finishes in major championships (stroke play tournaments) were T-6 at the 1954 U.S.Open and T-8 at the 1956 Masters Tournament. Courses that Mayfield helped design, most as a partner with famed course architect Dick Wilson, included the Doral Country Club and Pine Tree Golf Club in Florida and California's Bay Hill Golf Club and La Costa Country Club. Giving back to the town where he learned to play the game, he designed the back-nine added to the course at Max Starcke Park in Seguin, Texas. In 1992 Mayfield was elected to the Texas Golf Hall of Fame. Mayfield retired to his ranch in Carrizo Springs, Texas. He died in San Antonio, Texas on 22 March 2010 at the age of 85. Link to Wikipedia biography