Historical Notes - Past Champions - Championship Records
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1958
Charles R. Coe, 34, of Oklahoma City, leading amateur in the 1958 Open won for the second time, defeating Thomas D. Aaron, 21, of Gainesville, Ga., 5 and 4, on the Lake Course at the Olympic Country Club, San Francisco. The field included nearly all the members of the Americas Cup teams of Canada, Mexico and the United States, and one Canadian, Eric Hanson, played in the round of 16. Lt. Hillman Robbins, Jr., of Memphis, Tenn., the defender, was off form and succumbed in the third round. Later he turned professional. E. Harvie Ward, Jr., of San Francisco, Calif., the 1955 and 1956 Champion who had been on probation as a non-amateur during 1957, returned and reached the fifth round but lost there to H. Ward Wettlaufer, 22, of Buffalo, N.Y., 3 and 2. Besides Aaron and Wettlaufer, two other college players reached the quarter-finals; they were Deane R. Beman, 20, of Bethesda, Md., and Dick Foote, 20, of Santa Ana, Calif. George Boutell, 14, of Phoenix, Ariz., made his debut at the same age as Bob Jones in 1916. Dixie Chapman, 16, of Osterville, Mass., came with his father, Richard D. Chapman, the 1940 Champion, and they were the first father-and-son pair in the Amateur field since Emerson Carey, Jr., and Emerson Carey, III, of Denver, at Minneapolis in 1950. |
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