Dean Wilson Jr.

Dean Wilson Jr. has an outstanding high school and college golf career before winning the Nebraska Men’s Amateur championship in 1960. Wilson, who died in 1991, was also the runner-up in the state championship in both 1961 and ’63.

Wilson tied for top individual honors while pacing Omaha Central High to the 1951 state high school championship. That same year he won the state junior title.

While a student at Omaha University, Wilson led the team to a third-place finish at the NAIA nationals (individually he finished eighth in the nation); won the Beatrice Homesteader and two World Herald Publinks titles.

After college, Wilson won two more World Herald championships and was the runner up on four other occasions. Against the best in the country, he was the runner-up in the 1964 national U.S. Public Links championship. Among his many tournament victories were five KMTV titles, the Dunlop Open on two occasions and the Missouri Valley Open.