At age 21 he emigrated to the United States sailing aboard the RMS Aurania from Liverpool and arrived in New York on 4 June 1896.

He improved on that effort when he carded rounds of 82-87=169 and finished in fifth place at the 1897 U.S. Open, winning $10 in prize money.

He had rounds of 84-84-87-87=342 and tied for sixth place in the 1898 U.S. Open, held at Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, winning no prize money for his effort.

[2] In 1915 he was the manager of the Hot Springs Golf and Country Club in Hot Springs, Arkansas, but by September 1918, near the conclusion of World War I, he was posted at the Omaha Country Club in Omaha, Nebraska.

[6] He was one of the founding members of the PGA of America in 1916 and later worked as an executive for the Wilson Sporting Goods company.