B. Warren Corkran was a Baltimore native, who graduated from Princeton University in 1907, from Harvard Law School in 1910, and served in the Army during World War I from 1917 to 1919. He was a member of the Princeton golf team and later operated an investment firm. In 1921, Mr. Corkran won the first Maryland Amateur Championship at the Rolling Road Golf Club, was also medalist in 1923, and won the Championship again in 1928 and 1932. He was one of the finest golfers in Maryland and throughout the United States, as evidenced by his ranking as the fourth best amateur in the U. S. in the 1913 A. W. Tillinghast Annual Rankings. Corkran also won the Maryland Open in 1922 and the Maryland Senior Amateur in 1937 and 1938.
Corkran won over twenty-six regional titles, including four Maryland Cups, with one of those wins over Francis Quimet, who is often referred to as the “father of amateur golf.” The Maryland Cup was awarded for winning the Baltimore Country Club Invitational, a nationally recognized tournament of the era. His record includes two Middle Atlantic Golf Association Amateur Championships in 1921 and 1929, and he qualified for the USGA Amateur in 1913 and 1914.
In June of 1928, a match was held at the Baltimore Country Club’s Roland Park course between B. Warren Corkran (current Maryland Amateur Champion) and his partner Roland MacKenzie of Maryland, verses Watts Gunn and Bobby Jones, both of Atlanta, Georgia. The latter three were all members of the U. S. Walker Cup Team and ranked among the top ten amateur players in America. The match ended in a tie. B. Warren Corkran was inducted into the Maryland Sports Hall of Fame in 1982.
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