For years, Johnny Goodman was known as “the boy who beat Bobby Jones.” That unlikely outcome may have impacted the creation of Augusta National Golf Club. In 1929, during the onset of the Depression, ...

Images of Johnny Goodman, who in 1933 became the most recent amateur to win the U.S. Open. Congratulations on New Record. Near Chicago, Illinois: Johnny Goodman of Omaha is congratulatd by Billie ...

Jun 10, 2021 Jun 10, 2021 Updated Jul 11, 2021 0 1933 PHOTO: Nearly 2,000 people turned out at the Civic Auditorium for Johnny Goodman's homecoming after he won the 1933 U.S. Open. The No. 1 golfer in ...

1941 PHOTO: Johnny Goodman hits a shot on No. 14 at Field Club during a benefit match for Boys Town. He was beaten by Marvin Harvey Ward. Goodman, of Omaha, was the last amateur golfer to win the U.S.

Bestselling historian Wulf (Magnificent Rebels) offers a revelatory biography of the little remembered but brilliant polymath and naturalist George Forster, presenting him as a Continue reading » ...