1925 USGA US Amateur at Oakmont Entry Fee Receipt w/Photo of Contestant - Bobby Jones Win
Aiding tournament operations from a bookkeeping perspective was this paper ephemera survivor from Bobby Jones' third major win, this at Oakmont Golf Club. This, a scarce handwritten five dollar entry fee receipt to 1925 US Amateur contestant James W. Crookston from USGA Secretary Herbert Ramsey on official United States Golf Association receipt. It represents likely the only remaining exemplar of this type of ephemera. A post-swing photo of the referenced challenger Crookston accompanies this piece - the gentleman that likely knew the significance of not just himself playing in the largest amateur tournament in golf, but also of a Bobby Jones triumph. There is a center vertical compact crease and expected aging of the paper on the receipt's backside that is to be expected - quickly approaching 100 years since issuance.
It was Bobby Jones' 3rd major championship win, conquering the storied Oakmont CC along with the field April 31st-September. Standing toe to toe with 1925 US Amateur champion Bobby Jones at the club situated a 7-iron from Pittsburgh, this pin served as a badge of passage to the course for the elite few golfers who had risen to the apex of competition in The United States amateur game. Just as Bobby Jones dominated the 1925 U.S. Amateur which featured 16 qualifiers playing 36-hole matches, Jones in blow-out fashion won his first three matches 11-and-10, 6-and-5, and 7-and-6. The final was an all East Lake Country Club event, as Jones faced fellow club member Watts Gunn. It was the first and only time that two members from the same club had ended-up in the finals of the Amateur. Gunn was on a run of spectacular golf which included a never before seen and never to be equaled streak of 15 straight winning holes in an earlier match of that event. His fellow Atlanta native however was no match for Jones in the final a match that ended on the 29th hole, with Jones a 8-and-7 victor. He had defended his 1924 Amateur title won at Merion.
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