This Day in Golf--March 23

Amateur champion golfer Dick Chapman was born on March 23, 1911. Not well remembered today, Chapman was an international star, not only winning the U.S. Amateur in 1940 but the British Amateur in 1951 plus the amateur titles of France, Canada and Italy. He played on three U.S. Walker Cup teams in 1947, 1951 and 1953. He died in 1978.