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Saturday 26 May 1934AmateurYear in Review

Little wins the Amateur

Prestwick Golf Club, Prestwick, Scotland · Monday 21 to Saturday 26 May 1934

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

The weather

16 h 33 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 56° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

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The name over time

  1. The Amateur

1885–2026 in our record, 131 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

The Amateur

Prestwick Golf Club, Prestwick

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Lawson Little

14 & 13 (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: James Wallace

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1910-06-23, Newport, Rhode Island, USA; USA; age 23 at the win (year page)

Lawson Little’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