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Saturday 9 September 1922AmateurYear in Review

Sweetser wins U.S. Amateur

The Country Club, Brookline, Massachusetts · Saturday 2 to Saturday 9 September 1922

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

12 h 34 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 52° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R1Not yet researched
  2. R2Not yet researched
  3. R3Not yet researched
  4. R4Not yet researched

The name over time

  1. U.S. Amateur

1895–2026 in our record, 126 editions.

The ones it got away from

Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Men's amateur championship

U.S. Amateur

The Country Club, Brookline

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Jess Sweetser

3 & 2Final

Runner-up: Chick Evans

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1902-04-18, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.; United States; age 20 at the win (year page)

Jess Sweetser’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet