5th Porter Cup August 9 - 11, 1963

1 Bill Harvey*, Greensboro, NC 70-66-64-74-274 -62 Charlie Smith, Gastonia, NC 68-69-68-69-274 -63 Ward Wettlaufer, Buffalo, NY 71-70-72-68-281 +14 Denny Lyons, Jamestown, NY 76-71-67-70-284 +45 Dave Smith, Gastonia, NC 69-74-72-71-286 +66 John Konsek, Lancaster, NY 75-67-70-75-287 +7t7 Ralph Bogart, Washington, DC 70-74-73-72-289 +9t7 Harry Toscano, New Castle, PA 68-72-75-74-289 +9t7 John Parsons, Auburn, NY 74-73-71-71-289 +9t10 Howell Fraser, Panama City, FL 71-72-72-75-290 +10t10 John Birmingham, Pittsburgh, PA 73-73-74-70-290 +10t10 Curt Siegel, Snyder, NY 68-72-73-77-290 +1013 Bill Newton, Ann Arbor, MI 75-71-75-70-291 +11t14 Fran McCarthy, Amherst, NY 74-75-74-72-295 +15t14 Dr. Walter Knych, Fulton, NY 74-74-76-71-295 +1516 Don Smith, Greensboro, NC 69-74-72-81-296 +16t17 Roy Marquette, Wilmington, DE 73-76-79-69-297 +17t17 John Carroll, Geneva, NY 76-73-73-75-297 +17t17 Peter Cook, Miami, FL 70-76-79-72-297 +1720 Ed Tutwiler, Charleston, WV 74-73-73-78-298 +1821 Frank Arasin, Elysburg, PA 76-76-74-73-299 +1922 Phil Brownlee, Scarboro, ONT 75-76-71-79-301 +21t23 Jack Ferrante, Elwood, PA 75-77-78-72-302 +22t23 Fred Paine, Pittsburgh, PA 73-78-76-75-302 +22t23 Dr. Bud Humphreys, Erlanger, KY 71-73-79-79-302 +2226 Tom Woodall, Weston, ONT 78-77-76-74-305 +2527 Charles Newton, Ann Arbor, MI 80-72-75-79-306 +2628 Gordon Ball, Port Credit, ONT 77-77-76-77-307 +2729 Eric Hanson, Toronto, ONT 78-75-80-75-308 +28t30 Bob Stenzel, Amherst, NY 72-78-76-83-309 +29t30 Glynn Perkins, Weathersford, TX 77-75-79-78-309 +2932 Emil Pasnik, Lackawanna, NY 73-77-83-78-311 +31t33 Terry Thomas, Rochester, NY 77-74-84-77-312 +32t33 Jim Davis, Hamburg, NY 75-81-79-77-312 +3235 Harry Oates, Tonawanda, NY 79-79-78-79-315 +3536 Dan Koehler, Buffalo, NY 86-80-74-76-316 +36t37 Bill Hamilton, Anniston, AL 74-78-81-84-317 +37t37 Bill Lee, New Orleans, LA 84-75-77-81-317 +3739 Pete Corrallo, Lockport, NY 85-76-83-78-322 +4240 Richard Rooney, Clinton, NY 76-84-84-89-333 +5341 Fred Lytle, Gastonia, NC 85-83-87-80-335 +55

* defeated Charlie Smith on 5th playoff hole

It was probably poetic justice that lean Bill Harvey of Greensboro, NC won the Porter Cup Golf Tournament at the Niagara Falls Country Club.

Bill had broken all of the scoring marks in the tournament’s first two days and his third round 64 would stand as an NFCC course record which was to last 10 years.

Harvey had played the course with the swashbuckling bra-vado of a Mississippi riverboat gambler. He also proved him-self an amiable, sociable fellow not averse to staying up late for a party.

But Brother Bill was in trouble for most of the final round at Lewiston Heights. He couldn’t get a putt of any length to go in the hole and was eventually caught by husky Charlie Smith, a two-time Walker Cupper from Gastonia, NC.

After 72-holes, Harvey and Smith were all even at 274, six strokes under par and seven strokes under the tour-nament record set the prior year by Ed Tutwiler. The first playoff in Porter Cup history would be needed to determine the Champion.

Harvey would outlast Smith in the resulting duel by scoring a par-4 on the 459-yard fifth extra hole, their 77th of the tournament.

CHIP SHOT... Jack Nicklaus once said this about John Konsek, “Had John turned pro instead of pursuing a career in medicine, he definitely would be in the Hall of Fame by now. He had the opportunity to be one of the greatest golf-ers to ever play the game.”

Bill Harvey Wins Porter Cup Golf TourneyGreensboro Star Beats Charlie Smith In Five-Hole Playoff

Alex Porter poses next to 1963 Champion Bill Harvey. It would be Porter’s last tournament.

Bill Harvey prepares to tap in on the 9th hole at NFCC. Harvey would play

in a record 30 Porter Cup’s and 5 Senior Porter Cup’s.

Niagara Falls Gazette Monday, August 12, 1963

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