Chapman, whose career spanned more than 37 years, won the national amateur championships of the United States (1940), Britain (1951), Canada (1949), France (1939 and 1952), and Italy (1960). He is the only golfer ever to accomplish that feat.’ He won the Connecticut State Amateur twice (1936 and 1938), the New England Amateur (1951), and also state amateur titles in Massachusetts, New York, and the Carolinas.’ He played for the U.S. in the Walker Cup competitions of 1947, 1951, and 1953, all American victories.’