Robert Fraser

Robert “Bob” Fraser won two consecutive Nebraska State Amateur championships – five years apart!

The Omaha native, who has lived in Jackson Wyoming since his retirement in 1980, won his first state title in 1941. The tournament, which had been conducted uninterrupted since 1905, was then discontinued for four years from 1942-1945 because of World War II. When the championship resumed in 1946, Fraser won the crown again. Fraser added a third title eight years later in 1954.

Those weren’t Fraser’s first state championships, however. He was the state high school champ in 1932 while attending Creighton Prep.

While attending Creighton University in 1936, Fraser was the runner-up in the Western Amateur, made it to the fifth round of the U.S. Amateur in Garden City, NY; and was named to sportswriter Grantland Rice’s four man all-college team.

Fraser, who has had five holes-in-one, was also the Missouri Valley Champion in 1937 during his tenure at Creighton.

After his graduation from Creighton Law in 1939, Fraser later became the club champion at both the Happy Hollow Club and the Omaha Country Club. During that time, he was vice president and a board member of Happy Hollow and also a board member at OCC.

After moving to Wyoming, Fraser continued his fine play. He was not only club champion at the Jackson Hole Golf Club, but from 1989 to 1991 he shot his age when he was 73, 74, and 75.