fifty-one, in 1948 he and his son Joe Kirkwood Jr. both made the cut at the U.S. Open, the first father and son to do so and a record tied only in 2004. When his son won the 1951 Blue Ribbon Open in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, they became the third father-son winners in the history of the PGA Tour, which by 2010 still has only seven such pairs of winners. Joe Kirkwood Jr. became an actor who made a series of Hollywood films portraying the fictional boxer Joe Palooka. One of Joe Kirkwood Sr.'s most remarkable feats was playing a round of golf at 10-under-par 62, "breaking his age" when 63 years old. Kirkwood died at age 73 in 1970 in Burlington, Vermont. He was elected to the American Golf Hall of Fame at Foxburg, Pennsylvania. His autobiography, as told to Barbara Fey, was published posthumously in 1973 under the title Links of Life. In his honour, the annual winner of the Australian PGA Championship receives the Kirkwood Cup. He is buried in the West Branch Cemetery in Stowe. Professional wins PGA Tour wins (13) 1923 (5) California Open Championship, St. Augustine Open, Houston Invitational, Open Championship of Illinois, Kansas Mid-Continent Pro Championship (tie with Walter Hagen) 1924 (4) Texas Open, Houston Open, Philadelphia Open Championship, Corpus Christi Open 1930 (1) Long Beach Open (tie with Olin Dutra) 1931 (1) Southeastern Open 1933 (2) North and South Open, Canadian Open Other wins this list may be incomplete 1920 Australian Open, New Zealand Open, New Zealand Professional Championship 1922 McVitie & Price Tournament Results in major championships NYF = tournament not yet founded NT = no tournament WD = withdrew CUT = missed the half-way cut R32, R16, QF, SF = round in which player lost in PGA Championship match play "T" indicates a tie for a place Summary Most consecutive cuts made – 11 (1921 Open Championship – 1926 Open Championship) Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (nine times) See also List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins References External links Australian Dictionary of Biography Joe Kirkwood Memorial Golf Tournament Australian male golfers American male golfers PGA Tour golfers Golfers from Vermont 20th-century American memoirists 1897 births 1970 deaths