death_date children status majorwins year birth_date usopen death_place image_size spouse image college name usamateur caption fullname pga birth_place award masters open britamateur article_title
27 may 1989 nan , jess jr. , charles amateur 2 1986 18 april 1902 t14 : 1920 bethesda , maryland 300px nan lewis sweetser ; virginia lee sweetser jess sweetser sketch.jpeg yale university jess sweetser '' ` won '' ' : 1922 a edgren in 1922 . sketch of sweetser by syndicated cartoonist robert w. jesse w. sweetser dnp st. louis , missouri bob jones award t29 : 1939 t14 : 1920 '' ` won '' ' : 1926 jess sweetser

jess sweetser

jesse w. sweetser -lrb- april 18 , 1902 -- may 27 , 1989 -rrb- was an amateur golfer , best known as the first american-born player to win the british amateur -lrb- the first u.s. citizen to win it was the australian-born naturalized-american walter travis -rrb- .
