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You can be forgiven if you did not know that Ethan Fang won the 2025 British Amateur at Royal St. George's. It is understandable if you were unaware that his victory was the 20th by an American in the 140-year history of the British Amateur. To be a true, card-carrying member of the Walter J. Travis Society, you must be able to recite who won the first as an American in 1904: none other than Walter J. Travis. The Australian-born American was the first of 18 Americans to raise the championship trophy. He was also the first non-Brit to capture the championship.
Walter Travis’ 1904 British Amateur win, also at Royal St. George’s, came after he had won three of the previous four US Amateur Championship. Travis missed out in 1902, yet he he had a consolation prize: he was the qualifying medalist that year at the Glen View Club in Illinois.
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