Dick Metz won on the PGA Tour and came home to ranch
The Arkansas City golfer won 10 PGA Tour events and the 1960 Senior PGA Championship.
By Jolene Marquardt
Dick Metz was born in Arkansas City in 1908 and died there in 1993. In between, he was one of the better golfers in the country.
Metz won 10 times on the PGA Tour in the 1930s and 1940s. His best year was 1939, with wins at Oakland, Asheville, St. Paul and the San Francisco National Match Play Open. He also won the Chicago Open in 1940.
He kept winning as he got older. In 1960 he took both the Senior PGA Championship and the World Senior Championship.
In 1939 he married actress Jean Chatburn. From the 1950s until his death, he raised cattle.