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Year in Review
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Eight championships in our record: four majors (three men’s, one women’s) and four amateur championships. Bobby Jones won four of them: The Amateur, The Open, U.S. Amateur and U.S. Open.
1930, printed the way a newspaper of the day would print it: a halftone.
Each dot is a championship at the week it finished. Click a dot for its front page, or a week to see it on the world.
Men's major
Fresh Meadow Country Club, Flushing
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Gene Sarazen
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1895-09-24, Edinburgh, Scotland; Scotland / USA; age 34 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Leo Diegel, Macdonald Smith
To par not yet researched.
b. 1902-03-17, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; USA; age 28 at the win (year page); 7th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Interlachen C.C., Minneapolis
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Macdonald Smith
b. 1902-03-17, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; USA; 6th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Acacia Country Club, La Grange
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: June Beebe
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1887, Chicago, Illinois, United States; United States; age 42 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
St Andrews Links (Old Course), St Andrews
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Roger Wethered
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1902-03-17, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; USA; age 28 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Merion Cricket Club (East Course), Ardmore
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Eugene V. Homans
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1902-03-17, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; USA; age 28 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Formby Golf Club, Formby
1 of 5 researched
Winner
Diana Fishwick
Runner-up: Glenna Collett-Vare
To par and margin not yet researched.
Not yet researched
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Los Angeles C.C. (North Course), Beverly Hills
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Glenna Collett-Vare (also Glenna Collett)
Runner-up: Virginia Van Wie
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1903-06-20, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.; United States; age 27 at the win (year page)
Glenna Collett-Vare (also Glenna Collett)’s player card · Source
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Year in Review
Eight championships in our record: four majors (three men’s, one women’s) and four amateur championships. Bobby Jones won four of them: The Amateur, The Open, U.S. Amateur and U.S. Open.
To be written The synopsis of 1930: 150 to 250 words on the season’s story, its turning points and why it mattered, written from sourced research.
To be written How each was won: the leader after 54 holes, the decisive shot, the runner-up, the weather.
To be written How each was won, and where the women’s game stood in 1930.
To be written The amateur season: champions, finals, and who went on to turn professional.
8 tour events are laid out week by week for 1930. The most winners’ circles, counted from those schedules: Bobby Jones (4).
To be written Money lists, players of the year, rookies and the shape of each tour’s season, from the tours’ own records.
Bobby Jones won four championships in our record (The Amateur, The Open, U.S. Amateur and U.S. Open).
To be written Who defined 1930: their wins, their near misses, and what the year meant for their career.
To be written First-time major winners, scoring records, youngest and oldest champions, last appearances, events played for the first or last time.
To be written Equipment, rules and course changes, prize money, television and the business of golf that year.
Every count above is from Golf Network News’s record; the parts marked “To be written” are filled only from sourced research.
Every championship here comes from Golf Network News's own record: the rooms for the majors, the women's majors, the amateur championships and the team cups. A part that says it is not yet researched is exactly that. We fill it from sourced material, never with a guess.
The picture at the top is drawn in code for each year. It is printed the way golf was printed that year: wood engravings before 1900, newsprint halftones to 1945, hand-tinted plates to 1969, colour film to 1999, and digital light since. The names engraved in the numerals are that year's champions.
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