Multiple Winners
Sixteen players have won more than one Amateur Championship, through 2011:
- 8 wins: John Ball
- 5 wins: Michael Bonallack
- 4 wins: Harold Hilton
- 3 wins: Joe Carr
- 2 wins: Horace Hutchinson, Johnny Laidlay, Freddie Tait, Robert Maxwell, Ernest Holderness, Cyril Tolley, Lawson Little, Frank Stranahan, Trevor Homer, Dick Siderowf, Peter McEvoy, Gary Wolstenholme
Three players have won both the Amateur and the Open:
- John Ball – 1888, 1890, 1892, 1894, 1899, 1907, 1910, 1912 Amateurs; 1890 Open
- Harold Hilton – 1900, 1901, 1911, 1913 Amateurs; 1892, 1897 Opens
- Bobby Jones – 1930 Amateur; 1926, 1927, 1930 Opens
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Famous quotes containing the words multiple and/or winners:
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