1935 Amateur Championship: Lawson Little wins at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club

Lawson Little won the 1935 Amateur Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, beating William Tweddell 1 up in the final.

Updated 23 October 2026

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Edition: 46th
Dates: 20 May 1935 to 25 May 1935
Course: Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire
Format: match play
Champion: Lawson Little · age 24 · United States
Champion's title: 2nd Amateur Championship title
Runner-up: William Tweddell · age 38 · England
Final: 1 up (36-hole final)
Losing semifinalists: Robert Sweeny Jr. and T. A. Torrance
Defending champion: Lawson Little · won

What happened at the 1935 Amateur Championship

Final: Little was 3 up at lunch (73 to 76); Tweddell squared with six to play, Little went 2 up again, came to the 36th dormie one and halved it in par 4s to win 1 up - the first American to win in successive years

First round: unknown 22-year-old Worcestershire player J. Bryant beat Scottish champion Jack McLean 1 up, pitching to four feet from a sandy lie over a bunker at the 18th; the same day Canada's Ross Somerville and the English, Welsh and Irish champions also fell

The draw

Every match is recorded through the quarterfinal; earlier rounds are partial (quarterfinal (4 of 4; one score unknown); round of 16 (6 of 8); round of 32 (8 of 16)).

The final, 1935 Amateur Championship

Winner		Beaten	Result
Lawson Little	def.	William Tweddell	1 up

Semifinals, 1935 Amateur Championship

Winner		Beaten	Result
Lawson Little	def.	Robert Sweeny Jr.	3 & 2
William Tweddell	def.	T. A. Torrance	2 & 1

Quarterfinals, 1935 Amateur Championship

Winner		Beaten	Result
Lawson Little	def.	G. L. Q. Henriques	unknown
William Tweddell	def.	Eric Fiddian	1 up
T. A. Torrance	def.	Morton Dykes	won on 19th hole
Robert Sweeny Jr.	def.	Alex Walker	won on 19th hole

Round of 16, 1935 Amateur Championship

Winner		Beaten	Result
Eric Fiddian	def.	Chapman	2 & 1
T. A. Torrance	def.	H. L. Holden	won on 19th hole
Morton Dykes	def.	Donovan	1 up
Lawson Little	def.	J. L. Black	2 up
G. L. Q. Henriques	def.	Topping	4 & 2
Alex Walker	def.	A. M. Goodwin	6 & 5

Round of 32, 1935 Amateur Championship

Winner		Beaten	Result
Eric Fiddian	def.	John Burke	1 up
T. A. Torrance	def.	E. Gibbs	3 & 1
H. L. Holden	def.	John de Forest	6 & 4
Morton Dykes	def.	Bullock Webster	4 & 2
Lawson Little	def.	MacCallum	2 & 1
Topping	def.	Kyle	1 up
G. L. Q. Henriques	def.	Leslie Garnett	4 & 3
A. M. Goodwin	def.	Cyril Tolley	1 up

Round of 64, 1935 Amateur Championship

Winner		Beaten	Result
Eric Fiddian	def.	T. S. Tailer	2 & 1
Lawson Little	def.	J. P. Zacharias	4 & 3
Topping	def.	Dale Bourn	4 & 3
Leslie Garnett	def.	Llewellyn	4 & 3
G. L. Q. Henriques	def.	Shaffer	3 & 1
Cyril Tolley	def.	C. Buckley	1 up
A. C. Critchley	def.	Denys Scott	4 & 3
T. A. Torrance	def.	Black	5 & 4

First round, 1935 Amateur Championship

Listed as the record names this round; it cannot be placed in the bracket (no match-play field size is on record).

Winner		Beaten	Result
J. Bryant	def.	Jack McLean	1 up
L. Halliwell	def.	Ross Somerville	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.

Data: the-amateur.json.