Porteous played on the golf team at the University of Tennessee where he earned all-conference and all-region honors.
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He won several national opens in Europe in the 1950s and won the first Canada Cup with Roberto De Vicenzo in 1953 for Argentina.
He played college golf briefly in the United States at the University of Florida.
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