1911 Amateur Championship: Harold Hilton wins at Prestwick Golf Club
Harold Hilton won the 1911 Amateur Championship at Prestwick Golf Club in Prestwick, South Ayrshire, beating Edward Lassen 4 & 3 in the final.
Updated 23 October 2026
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- Edition
- 27th
- Dates
- 2 June 1911
- Course
- Prestwick Golf Club, Prestwick, South Ayrshire
- Format
- match play
- Champion
- Harold Hilton · age 42 · England · Royal Liverpool
- Champion's title
- 3rd Amateur Championship title
- Runner-up
- Edward Lassen · age 34 · England
- Final
- 4 & 3 (36-hole final)
- Match-play field
- 146
- Losing semifinalists
- Gordon Lockhart and Leicester B. Stevens
- Defending champion
- John Ball
- Entries
- 146
What happened at the 1911 Amateur Championship
Semi-final: Edward Lassen beat Leicester Stevens by two holes after Stevens was penalised twice, once for grounding his club in the rushes at the 7th and once for his caddie standing on the line
Final: Harold Hilton, square at lunch, beat Lassen 4 & 3; in the fifth round Chick Evans had lost to Tasmanian left-hander Bruce Pearce at the 19th
The draw
Every match is recorded through the quarterfinal.
The final, 1911 Amateur Championship
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harold Hilton | def. | Edward Lassen | 4 & 3 |
Semifinals, 1911 Amateur Championship
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harold Hilton | def. | Gordon Lockhart | 4 & 3 |
| Edward Lassen | def. | Leicester B. Stevens | 2 up |
Quarterfinals, 1911 Amateur Championship
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harold Hilton | def. | James Jenkins | 3 & 2 |
| Gordon Lockhart | def. | Bruce Pearce | 4 & 3 |
| Edward Lassen | def. | Harry Colt | 6 & 5 |
| Leicester B. Stevens | def. | Abe Mitchell | 2 & 1 |
How this was built
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's Amateur Championship data set (research collected through 20 October 2026). "unknown" means no source confirmed it; nothing is estimated. Where sources disagree, the R&A's own record is used.
Values found only on Wikipedia, kept and flagged: champion_nationality, runner_up_nationality.
Data: the-amateur.json.