Jimmy Bruen
Summary
- Titles 1946 The Amateur
Wins
- 1946 The Amateur Championship Royal Birkdale Golf Club · 4 & 3
Results by championship
Best day
1946 The Amateur
Royal Birkdale Golf Club · won 4 & 3
As the championship resumed after the war, Ireland's Jimmy Bruen beat 1937 champion Robert Sweeny Jr. 4 & 3 at Birkdale.
Chosen by rule: the first championship title. Year page: 1946.
Career line, 1946–1946
1 results. Hover or tap a mark; click it for the year.
- Other win
Jimmy Bruen was born on May 8, 1920, in Finaghy, Belfast, Ireland. Bruen won the 1946 The Amateur.
See Jimmy Bruen in our rooms: The Open and Every Ground.
Cards you pull this visit stack here. Tap one to go back to it.
The record
Amateur titles (1)
- 1946 The Amateur Championship Royal Birkdale Golf Club · 4 & 3
Profile
Researched for this card in October 2026; each line names the page it comes from.
Full name
- James Francis O’Grady Bruen Wikipedia
Status
- amateur Wikipedia
Died in
- Cork, Ireland Wikipedia
Beyond our rooms
- 1938 Walker Cup team (Great Britain)
- 1949 Walker Cup team (Great Britain)
- 1951 Walker Cup team (Great Britain)
- 1937 Irish Amateur Close Championship winner
- 1938 Irish Amateur Close Championship winner
- 1950 Daily Telegraph Foursomes Tournament (with Wally Smithers) winner
Source: Wikipedia: Jimmy Bruen
Known for
- James Francis O’Grady Bruen (8 May 1920 – 3 May 1972) was an Irish amateur golfer. Wikipedia
Sources
Elsewhere: Wikipedia · Wikidata.
Every fact on this page comes from Golf Network News data sets compiled in October 2026 (Masters, PGA Championship, The Open, U.S. Women's Open, Ryder Cup, PGA Tour 2024–2026, major host sites, Champions Dinner menus, and the U.S. Open and state rooms). These are the sources those rows cite.