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Dick Yost played
collegiately at
Oregon State,
and then as
an amateur
throughout the
Northwest for two
decades.
Yost
grew up in Portland
and took up golf in
part because he
lived close to Rose
City Golf Course. He
made his way to
Oregon State in 1948
and played through
1951, earning a spot
in the NCAA
Tournament three
times. He won the
Oregon Amateur title
in 1950.
In 1949,
Yost represented
Oregon in the first
Hudson Cup, a Ryder
Cup-style tournament
pitting a 10-member
team of amateurs and
professionals from
Oregon against
Washington, and
played in the
tournament 12 more
times through 1964.
He captained the
Oregon team from
1962-69.
Yost
was named to the
1955 Walker Cup team
along with fellow
Oregonian Bruce
Cudd, who was
playing for the
University of
Portland. The U.S
team of amateurs
lost to a team of
amateurs from
Britain and Ireland
on the Old Course at
St. Andrews,
Scotland.
Yost
won the Pacific
Northwest Golf
Association amateur
title in 1953 and
'55, and the Oregon
Open in 1958. He was
inducted to the
Oregon Sports Hall
of Fame in 1982, the
Oregon State
Athletics Hall of
Fame in 1990 and the
PNGA Hall of Fame in
1991.
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