Max McCready

{{Short description|Irish golfer}}

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| fullname = Samuel Maxwell McCready

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|3|8|df=y}}

| birth_place = Belfast, Ireland

| death_date = 1994 (aged 76)

| death_place = South Africa

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| status = Amateur

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Samuel Maxwell McCready (8 March 1918 – 1994) was an Irish amateur golfer. He won the 1949 Amateur Championship and was in the British Walker Cup team in 1949 and 1951.{{cite web |url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/rafgolf/Administration/maxmccready.cfm |title=Max McCready |work=RAF Golf Association |author= |date= |accessdate=30 May 2017}}

McCready lived near the Dunmurry golf course, near Belfast, where he learnt his golf. During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force. McCready moved to South Africa in 1959 where he worked for McAlpine Construction. He died in South Africa in 1994.{{cite journal |last=Hanna |first=John |title=Irish Musings - The Walker Cup Match 1951 and Cecil Ewing |url=http://www.golfcollectors.co.uk/u/cms/TTG_105_2013_June.pdf |issue=105 |pages=14–17 |date=June 2013 |website=www.golfcollectors.co.uk |accessdate=30 May 2017}} His widow Joan died in 2015 aged 109.http://whiteriverpost.co.za/172816/joan-passes-away-peacefully-at-109/ {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}