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Saturday 5 September 1931AmateurYear in Review

Ouimet wins U.S. Amateur

Beverly Country Club, Chicago, Illinois · Monday 31 August to Saturday 5 September 1931

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 45 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 54° up at noon, and that night a last-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R1Not yet researched
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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

Beverly Country Club, Chicago

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Francis Ouimet

6 & 5Final

Runner-up: Jack Westland

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1893-05-08, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA; USA; age 38 at the win (year page)

Francis Ouimet’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