On this day in 1991, Jim Stuart captured the U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship at Long Cove Club in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Stuart was inducted into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in 2011.
With the victory, Stuart became the first player to claim back-to-back U.S. Mid-Amateur titles. Stuart won the 1990 playing at Troon Golf and Country Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. Stuart is part of a select club of Georgians, including Bobby Jones, Alexa Stirling Fraser, Allen Doyle and Hollis Stacy, who have won consecutive USGA national championship titles.
Those victories earned Stuart invitations to participate in the following years' Masters Tournaments. He missed the 36-hole cut in both years, but fired an even-par 72 in the second round of the 1991 tournament, second low of the day among amateurs.
After two years at junior college power Alexander City (now Central Alabama) where he won an individual national junior college title and All-American honors, Stuart spent two years at Columbus College (now Columbus State University) where he was a Division II All-American was part of the 1980 Division II national title squad.
Among his other victories, Stuart also won the 1992 Georgia Four-Ball Championship and the 1995 Georgia Mid-Amateur Championship.
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