Johnny G. Goodman

(1908-1970) born in Omaha. Insurance salesman, amateur golf player, winner of 1933 U.S. Open Championship, the last amateur to do so, appeared on cover of Time, June 6, 1938. Consult New York Times obituary, August 10, 1970, p. 29 and the Lincoln Journal Star, June 17, 1998, p. C-3 and Walter Curtis, Johnny Goodman-The Last Amateur Golfer to Win the U.S. Open (Curtis Publishing, 1998).

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