M.T. JOHNSON JR. - INDUCTEE #68
hall of fame fast fact:
Golf continues to be a tradition in the Johnson family. Grandson Johnson Wagner, son of Tommy and Betty Wagner, earned his PGA card in 2007 after winning two events and being the second leading money-winner on the Nationwide (developmental) Tour in 2006. Wagner won the Shell Houston Open on the PGA Tour in April 2008, which qualified him for the Masters the next week.
M.T. Johnson Jr.
Montford T. Johnson Jr. was an all-state quarterback at Amarillo High School, then Oklahoma University. But golf was his passion.
M.T. Johnson started at Oklahoma in the fall of 1941 on a football scholarship; three months later the United States entered World War II. Johnson then transferred to the Naval Academy; he was too small to play on the Navy football team, so he played on the golf team.
M.T. Johnson was a 5-handicap golfer and a past president of Amarillo Country Club; he became treasurer and executive member of the U.S. Golf Association. Johnson was past president of the Trans-Mississippi Golf Association board and a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Johnson was a member of the Amarillo school board from 1954 to 1969 and founded Tascosa National Bank.
In later life, Johnson wore a black eye patch, the result of a tumor in his right eye.
M.T. Johnson died in 1999 at the age of 76.
