George Dunlap (golfer)
Encyclopedia
George T. Dunlap, Jr. was an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 amateur golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

er best known for winning the U.S. Amateur.

Dunlap was born in Arlington, New Jersey. His father was the co-founder of Grossett & Dunlap Publishers.

Dunlap graduated from Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 in 1931. He won the Intercollegiate Individual Championship
NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships
The NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, played in late May or early June, is the top annual competition in U.S. men's collegiate golf. It is a stroke play team competition, starting in 2009 the competition changed to a stroke play/match play competition with the top 8 teams after 54 holes of...

 in 1930 and 1931 and led Princeton to the team victory in 1930.

Dunlap won the U.S. Amateur in 1933 and also won seven North and South Amateurs from 1931 to 1942 including four in a row (1933-36).

Dunlap played on three winning Walker Cup
Walker Cup
The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested biennially in odd numbered years between teams comprising the leading amateur golfers of the United States and Great Britain and Ireland...

 teams; 1932, 1934, and 1936.

Dunlap died in Naples, Florida
Naples, Florida
Naples is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States. As of July 1, 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 21,653. Naples is a principal city of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated total population of 315,839 on July 1, 2007...

.

Tournament wins (11)

  • 1930 Intercollegiate Individual Championship
    NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships
    The NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, played in late May or early June, is the top annual competition in U.S. men's collegiate golf. It is a stroke play team competition, starting in 2009 the competition changed to a stroke play/match play competition with the top 8 teams after 54 holes of...

  • 1931 Intercollegiate Individual Championship
    NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships
    The NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, played in late May or early June, is the top annual competition in U.S. men's collegiate golf. It is a stroke play team competition, starting in 2009 the competition changed to a stroke play/match play competition with the top 8 teams after 54 holes of...

    , North and South Amateur
  • 1933 U.S. Amateur, North and South Amateur
  • 1934 North and South Amateur
  • 1935 North and South Amateur
  • 1936 North and South Amateur, Metropolitan Amateur
    Metropolitan Amateur
    The Metropolitan Amateur or Met Amateur is an amateur golf tournament organized by the Metropolitan Golf Association. It has been played annually since 1899 and is one of the oldest amateur golf tournaments in the United States along with the U.S. Amateur and the Western Amateur...

  • 1940 North and South Amateur
  • 1942 North and South Amateur

Amateur wins (1)

YearChampionshipWinning ScoreRunner-up
1933 U.S. Amateur  6 & 5   Max R. Marston

Results timeline

Tournament 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936
Masters Tournament NYF NYF NYF NYF NYF NYF T34 DNP DNP
The Open Championship
The Open Championship
The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...

DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T35 DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Amateur R16 R32 R16 1 R64 R128 R32
The Amateur Championship
The Amateur Championship
The Amateur Championship is a golf tournament which is held annually in the United Kingdom. It is one of the two leading individual tournaments for amateur golfers, alongside the U.S. Amateur...

DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP SF SF DNP DNP


NYF = Tournament not yet founded

DNP = Did not play

"T" indicates a tie for a place

DNQ = Did not qualify for match play portion

R256, R128, R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in match play

Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

Source for U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur: USGA Championship Database

Source for 1933 British Open: www.opengolf.com

Source for 1933 British Amateur: The Glasgow Herald, June 24, 1933, pg. 11.

Source for 1934 Masters: www.masters.com

Source for 1934 British Amateur: The American Golfer, July, 1934, pg. 16.
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK