Amateur golf has lost another one of its giants.

John Harris, who remains the last mid-amateur to win the U.S. Amateur, died Wednesday. Harris, who was 73, had been battling acute myeloid leukemia, and though his condition had improved in recent months thanks to a bone-marrow transplant, he became ill last weekend and was admitted to hospice on Tuesday.

Harris’ death comes after Jay Sigel, a five-time USGA champion and nine-time Walker Cupper, died in April from pancreatic cancer.

Harris, a good friend of Sigel, played on four Walker Cup teams of his own, helping the U.S. to wins in 1993 and 1997. He was also a member of the 2001 American squad that lost at Ocean Forest; that group remains the last U.S. team to lose a Walker Cup on home soil. At St. Andrews in 2023, Harris addressed cap

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