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| 1958 Charles R. Coe 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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U.S. Amateur PAR AND YARDAGE – The Lakeside Course at The Olympic Club will play at 6,948 yards and par 35-35—70. The Ocean Course at The Olympic Club, which will be used for the first two days of stroke play only, will play at 6,786 yards and par 35-35—70. THE OLYMPIC CLUB – Sam Whiting, a former English professor at the University of California at Berkley, designed the Lakeside Course, which opened in 1927. Whiting also supervised construction on the Ocean Course. Following completion of the jobs, Whiting stayed on as golf course superintendent until 1954. Tom Weiskopf worked on the recently completed re-design of the Ocean Course. TICKETS AVAILABLE – Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.com or www.ticketweb.com. Daily tickets are $15 and a weekly pass is $60. Other ticket options are also available. Children 12 and under are admitted free if accompanied by a paying adult. COURSE SETUP – The Lakeside Course at the Olympic Club will be set for green speeds of approximately 11 feet, 6 inches on the Stimpmeter. The primary rough will be grown to 4 inches, with a strip of intermediate rough cut to 1½ inches in height. Poa annua grass covers the greens. The fairways are a rye and poa annual grass combination. The roughs also have a bit of bluegrass mixed in. USGA SLOPE RATING® AND COURSE RATING™ – The Lakeside Course at the Olympic Club will carry a USGA Course Rating™ of 74.8 and a USGA Slope Rating® of 143. The Ocean Course will carry a USGA Course Rating™ of 74.0 and a USGA Slope Rating® of 136. An "average" Slope Rating in the U.S. is about 113. TOTAL ENTRIES – The USGA accepted 7,398 entries for the 2007 U.S. Amateur. The most entries ever received for an Amateur championship was 7,920 in 1999 when the U.S. Amateur was played at Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links. WHO CAN ENTER – The U.S. Amateur Championship is open to amateur golfers who have a USGA Handicap Index not exceeding 2.4.
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