Héctor Beéche

Héctor Beéche competed in the handicap golf event at the 1900 Paris Olympics, finishing 10th, while shooting a 101, off an 18-handicap. He did not play in the event considered the 1900 Olympic golf tournament. Beéche was also entered in the 1904 Olympic golf tournament at Glen Echo Country Club in St. Louis, but did not play and the reasons for that are not known. In a 1904 edition of The New York Times, Beéche was described as the “champion of Chili [sic].”

It is known that Beéche beat H. F. Overbury of Wembley, by 7 & 5, to win the inaugural French Open Amateur Championship at Versailles in June 1904. Three years later, he was one of two amateurs in the field of 16 in the French Open, won by Arnaud Massy. Beéche retired after two rounds of 92 and 93, when he was last, and 36 shots behind the half-way leader Massy. After being dormant on the golf scene for many years, Beéche re-emerged in 1923, when a member of the Chantilly Golf Club, and played again in the French Open Amateur Championship. He also played in the championship of 1924, 1927 and 1929. His wife Rosa was also a fine golfer.