Kyle was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland but his family moved to Peebles when he was about two years old.

[3] Kyle moved to Yorkshire in 1931 and was a member of Sand Moor Golf Club, north of Leeds.

[4] In 1939 Kyle won the Amateur Championship beating Welshman Tony Duncan 2&1 in the final.

The match was level after 33 holes but Duncan missed a short putt at the 34th and went out-of-bounds at the 35th to give Kyle victory.

[6] Kyle married Edith Mary Rhodes in 1949, herself an England golf internationalist who represented Great Britain in the 1939 Vagliano Trophy.