Career
In 1888 Ricketts emigrated to the United States from England and took a job as a golf instructor at the Country Club of Rochester in Rochester, New York, where he instructed Rochester-born Walter Hagen and others on the finer points of golf. Ricketts tied for sixth place with Bernard Nicholls in the 1897 United States. Open, held at Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Illinois. He got off to a poor start with an opening round 91 but with a full 10-shot improvement in round two at 81 he finished high on the leaderboard.
Ricketts also had a tenth place finish in the 1896 United States. Open by carding rounds of 80-83=163.
In 1930, likely as a result of the Great Depression, he was no longer in the golf business but rather was working as a packer and stamper in a metal fabrication factory. Ricketts" date of death is unknown.
