ogan and Nelson?
They were pretty
good, I guess.
But
back in the 1930s the real one
to watch was the talented
young amateur Gus Moreland.
Moreland beat them all.
Besides Hogan and Nelson,
he also beat two-time U.
S.
Open Champion Ralph...
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ogan and Nelson?
They were pretty
good, I guess.
But
back in the 1930s the real one
to watch was the talented
young amateur Gus Moreland.
Moreland beat them all.
Besides Hogan and Nelson,
he also beat two-time U.
S.
Open Champion Ralph
Guldahl, Lawson Little and
Johnny Goodman in important tournaments.
He won the
Western Amateur, the TransMiss Amateur twice, and won
the Texas Amateur three years
in a row from 1931-33.
He
won the Houston Country
Club Invitational four times.
In the 1932 he beat Johnny
Goodman in the Houston
Invitational final.
Goodman
had an easier time a year later
at North Shore Country Club
in Illinois, where we won the
U.
S.
Open, the last amateur to
do so.
All totaled, Moreland
won 21 national invitational
tournaments.
Some called Moreland
“The Young Bobby Jones,”
thinking that he was the most
likely successor to the greatest
amateur golfer ever.
That was
ironic because the two couldn’t be more opposite char
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