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Robert Housen

Birth Date: July 6, 1938
Birthplace: Lakewood, N.J.
Age: 64 Ht.: 6’2" Wt.: 220
Home: Brielle, N.J.
College: Monmouth College

Player Notes:

Works as a certified financial planner, semi-retired as of Jan. 1; long amateur career in the state of New Jersey. Won the New Jersey State Amateur Championship, at age 55 in 1993. . . In 2000, earned the last win of any significance, Hough Wilson Championship at Merion, the 39th tournament he has won in his amateur career. . . six state championships, won three Walter J. Travis match play championships in three decades; from first amateur win to last amateur win was 20 years. . . An amateur, qualified in Elmwood at White Plains to play in his sixth Senior Open. . . also qualified to play at Medinah at age 50, low amateur in that Open, shooting 77-76-75-74; has played Cherry Hills, Pinehurst, Congressional (low amateur), Canterbury, made the cut at all of them but Canterbury. . . this marks the first time he has qualified for the Senior Open in seven years. . . a semifinalist in the first Mid-Amateur in 1981; played in four or five mid-amateurs, a semifinalist in two Senior Amateurs (’93 and ’94). . . married to wife, Marjorie, has three children, Christopher (38), son Patrick, and daughter Jennifer Paige Chapman, also has three grandchildren (grandson Zachary, granddaughters Tara and Kelly). . . hopes to get a young college student to caddie for him



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