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Saturday 17 September 1932AmateurYear in Review

Somerville wins U.S. Amateur

Baltimore Country Club, Baltimore, Maryland · Monday 12 to Saturday 17 September 1932

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 07 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
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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

Baltimore Country Club (Five Farms, East Course), Timonium

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Ross Somerville

2 & 1Final

Runner-up: Johnny Goodman

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1903-05-04, London, Ontario, Canada; Canada; age 29 at the win (year page)

Ross Somerville’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