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1997 97th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel
1996 96th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods 1995 95th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods 1994 94th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods 1993 93rd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris 1992 92nd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard 1992 Ralph Cooper, creator (Amateur Night at the Apollo), dies of cancer 1991 91st U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Mitch Voges 1991 New York Yankees selected 19-year-old Brien Taylor, #1 in amateur draft 1991 John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award 1991 Four Los Angeles Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video 1990 90th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson 1989 Amateur Athletic Federation strips Ben Johnson of all track records 1989 89th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton 1988 88th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks 1988 Amateur referees work New Jersey Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by Devils 1987 87th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair 1983 83rd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel 1982 82nd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel 1980 80th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton 1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are U.S. amateur boxers) 1979 79th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara 1979 Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro and amateur umpires 1976 Ted Mack, TV host (Original Amateur Hour), dies at 72 1972 Stephen O'Connor, Irish amateur snooker champ 1990 1970 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (Calif) 1969 U.S. amateur Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Bob Lutz (97 63 61) 1969 U.S. amateur Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60) 1969 69th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk 1969 Duane Bock, born in Southampton, New York, golfer, 1991 Low Amateur New York State Open 1968 68th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher 1968 Malika Mahfoud, Copenhagen Denmark, golfer, Gippsland Ladies Amateur 1968 Lawson Little, amateur golfer (U.S./British Opens 1934,35), dies at 57 1967 Oswald Drawdy, Hampton, South Carolina, Canadian Tour golfer, 1987 South Carolina Amateur 1967 Ben Fouchee, born in Kuruman, South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer, 1987 South Africa Amateur 1967 Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) and 1st amateur to U.S. Women's open golf tournament 1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum 1965 Luc Rochefort, Trois-Rivieres Que, golfer, 1991 Low Amateur Quebec 1965 David Bolton, born in Guyana, Canadian Tour golfer, 1992 Lando Mem Amateur 1964 Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament 1963 Jane Leary, Sydney Australia, golfer, 1992 Australian Amateur Champ 1961 61st U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus 1960 Patti Rizzo, born in Hollywood, Florida, golfer, Mexican Amateur champion 1980 1959 59th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus 1958 Sue Daniels, Adelaide Australia, golfer, 1983 Victorian Amateur Champ 1958 Maureen Madill, born in Coleraine, Nothern Ireland, golfer, British Open Amateur 1979 1954 International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China 1950 Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey, Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League 1950 West Germany and Japan readmitted to International Amateur Athletic Federation 1950 Cathy Sherk, born in Bancroft, Ontario, professional golfer, achieved No. 1 World ranking by Golf Digest, 1978, earned silver medal with Canadian team at 1978 World Amateur Golf Team Championships, joined LPGA tour, inducted into Canadian Golf Hall of Fame, 1995 1948 Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS) 1947 U.S.S.R. joins International Amateur Athletic Union 1947 Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000 1947 Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win British Women's Amateur Golf Champ 1946 Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), dies at 71 1943 Richard Sears, 1st to win U.S. amateur national tennis match, dies at 81 1941 Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro 1941 AH Borgesius, tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76 1941 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized, California 1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network 1933 Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist 1930 34th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones 1928 Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming 1925 29th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones 1918 Patty Berg, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, LPGA golfer, 1938 U.S. Amateur 1913 19th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers 1912 IAF (International Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden 1911 Richard Chapman, golfer, 1940 U.S. amateur, 1951 British amateur 1910 Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park 1904 Ted Mack, born in Denver, Colorado, TV host, Original Amateur Hour 1901 Joyce Wethered, Surrey England, golfer, 4 time British Amateur champ 1897 Michael Eagan wins 1st U.S. national amateur handball championship 1887 Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established 1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms 1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England 1877 1st U.S. amateur swim meet (New York Athletic Club) 1874 Edward Bowes, radio host, Major Bowes Amateur Hour 1871 1st U.S. amateur outdoor athletic games (NY) 1869 James E Sullivan, founder, Amateur Athletic Union 1868 1st American amateur track and field meet (New York City) 1864 A H Borgesius, Dutch amateur astronomer 1797 Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer, constructed 1st Moon map 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