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Jesse W. Sweetser (April 18 1902 – May 27 1989) was an amateur golfer best known as the first American-born player to win the British Amateur (the first U.S. citizen to win it was the Australian-born naturalized-American Walter Travis).Born in St. Louis Missouri Sweetser later attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University. In 1920 Sweetser won the individual title at the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships.Sweetser won the 1922 U.S.