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Year in Review
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Nine championships in our record: four majors (three men’s, one women’s), four amateur championships and one team cup.
1931, 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
Wannamoisett Country Club, Rumford
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Denny Shute
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1911-02-03, Tuckahoe, New York; United States; age 20 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Carnoustie Golf Links (Championship Course), Carnoustie
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: José Jurado
To par not yet researched.
b. 1895-09-24, Edinburgh, Scotland; Scotland / USA; age 35 at the win (year page); 3rd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Inverness Club, Toledo
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: George Von Elm
b. 1902-12-14, Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA; United States; 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Midlothian Country Club, Midlothian
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Rose Jones
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1913, Chicago, Illinois, United States; United States; age 18 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
Royal North Devon Golf Club, Westward Ho!
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: John de Forest
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1908-12-28; England; age 22 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Beverly Country Club, Chicago
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Jack Westland
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1893-05-08, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA; USA; age 38 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Portmarnock Golf Club, Portmarnock
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Wanda Morgan
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1910; England
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Country Club of Buffalo, Williamsville
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Glenna Collett-Vare
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1911, Cedarhurst, New York, United States; United States; age 20 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Our team-cup record so far: Ryder Cup.
Team cup
Scioto Country Club, Scioto
1 of 5 researched
Winner
USA
Runner-up: Great Britain
To par not yet researched.
Not yet researched
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Year in Review
Nine championships in our record: four majors (three men’s, one women’s), four amateur championships and one team cup.
To be written The synopsis of 1931: 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 1931.
To be written The amateur season: champions, finals, and who went on to turn professional.
To be written The match: the captains, the score, the deciding points.
9 tour events are laid out week by week for 1931.
To be written Money lists, players of the year, rookies and the shape of each tour’s season, from the tours’ own records.
To be written Who defined 1931: 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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