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Home > Golf > Champions Tour Players > Walter Zembriski
Walter Zembriski
Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play. The Tour Championship is the final event of golf's PGA Tour season. The top 30 money winners on the PGA Tour after the penultimate event qualify for the Championship, which is one of the richest tournaments on the tour.
Walter Zembriski is was born on the 24th of May 1935 in Mahwah, New Jersey, United States of America. He is a 5 foot 8 inch Professional Golfer who achieved his Champions Tour Victories in 1988 when he won the Newport Cup and the Vantage Championship, in 1989, he won the GTE, General Telephone and Electronics, West Classic which was his best Champions Tour as well. His best 2005 Champions Tour finish was a Tied 64th in the Allianz Championship. His Champions Tour Playoff Record stands at 0-2.
He won the last of his three Champions Tour victories at the 1989 GTE West Classic. He fired rounds of 64-68-65 to best George Archer and Jim Dent by two strokes. He surprised the golf world by winning the Vantage Championship in 1988. He bested Al Geiberger, Dave Hill and Dick Rhyan by three strokes to claim the 135,000 US dollar first-place check, the largest on the Champions Tour at the time. He earned a fully-exempt status on the Champions Tour at the 1985 National Qualifying Tournament by finishing third. He had brief stint on the PGA Tour after earning his card in 1967. He qualified for the U.S. Open in 1978 and 1982. He played by himself in the final round of the 1978 event at Cherry Hills Country Club near Denver, and had the fastest round in Open history of two hours, 13 minute and won 10 tournaments on the 1982 Space Coast mini-tour in Florida. He grew up near Out of Bounds Club in Mahwah, New Jersey, a public course where his father once caddied for Babe Ruth and where he taught himself to play golf while working as a caddie.
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