Lawson Little
Toronto Daily Star, May 25 1935
Lawson Little (1910-1968) won the British Amateur and U.S. Amateur championships in both 1934 and 1935. He is one of four golfers to have won both championships in the same year and the only one to do it twice.
Little turned professional in 1936 and won eight tournaments, including the 1940 U.S. Open. He carried up to 26 clubs in his bag until the United States Golf Association imposed a 14-club limit in 1938. He raised his family in a house that was located on the first fairway of the Pebble Beach golf course (hopefully, off to one side and not right in the middle of it).
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