f Texas has an answer to Bobby
Jones, it’s George
Vanlandingham Rotan.
His record in state events is
unparalleled.
The most prestigious
amateur tournaments in the state were
the Texas Amateur and the Houston
Country Club Invitational.
Rotan won...
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f Texas has an answer to Bobby
Jones, it’s George
Vanlandingham Rotan.
His record in state events is
unparalleled.
The most prestigious
amateur tournaments in the state were
the Texas Amateur and the Houston
Country Club Invitational.
Rotan won
the State Am five times and the
Houston Invitational six times.
He
was a member of the victorious 1923
Walker Cup team and as a collegian
captained the Yale golf team to three
national championships in 1905, 1906
and 1907.
Most famously, he held the
course record at Pine Valley Golf
Club for more than three decades.
In the days before Ben Hogan and
Byron Nelson, before Texans put
their thumbprint on American golf,
“Texas golf” conjured images of cowboys and sand greens.
George Rotan
was one of the first Texans to make
an impact on the national golf scene.
Amateur golf was much bigger
than pro golf.
Playing golf for money
was viewed as unseemly by
America’s upper crust.
Amateurs
were viewed as the “t
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