This Day in Golf--Sept. 14

An often overlooked golf feat--likely because it involved amateur golf--was the consecutive victories Lawson Little, Jr. had in both the Amateur Championship and U.S. Amateur. He won each in 1934 and 1935. The U.S. Amateur topped the achievement on this date in 1935 when Little, out of Presidio, Calif., defeated Walter Emery, of Twin Hills, Okla., 4 and 2, at The Country Club in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Only 13 players have won both prestigious amateurs in their career, and just four have won them in the same year. Little is the only player to win them in the same year twice, and he did it in style by doing it in consecutive years.