This Day in Golf History: September 5

On this date in 1925, the 29th U.S. Amateur Championship was won by Bobby Jones in a battle with fellow Atlantan Watts Gunn. Jones won, 8 and 7, at venerable Oakmont Country Club to win for the second straight time. This is the time of year when the U.S. Amateur is played and another past playing ended on this date in 1982 when Jay Sigel won the 82nd, that one held at The Country Club near Boston, site of Francis Ouimet’s pivotal 1913 U.S.. Open victory.