Deane R. Beman, 25, of Bethesda, Md., won the Championship for the second time, defeating R.H. Sikes, of Springdale, Ark., by 2 and 1 in the final round at the Wakonda Club, Des Moines, Iowa. It was the third major Amateur Championship won by Beman, the British Amateur Champion in 1959 and the United States Champion in 1960.

Beman won five holes in succession from Sikes after being 3 down after the 14th. Sikes, the 1961 and 1962 Amateur Public Links Champion, drew even after 26, but Beman played flawless golf from there in.

Sikes defeated Charles R. Coe, of Oklahoma City, by 2 and 1 in the semi-final round. Coe, the 1949 and 1958 Champion, had won 55 matches in the Championship, two less than the record 57 won by Charles Evans, Jr. Evans, after competing in 50 consecutive Amateur Championships, did not start in 1963 because of illness.

The other semi-finalist, and the only one of the four not a member of recent USGA International Teams, was George Archer, 25, a 6' 5" ranch employee from Gilroy, Calif. Archer lost to Beman by 5 and 4. Labron Harris, Jr., the 1962 Champion from Stillwater, Okla., lost in the third round to Walter Stahl of Cleveland, Ohio, by 2 and 1.