Harold Brink was a dominant amateur golfer in West Michigan, winning what was then regarded as the City Championship as many as eight times according to incomplete records as well as other local tournaments over four decades starting in the 1930s.
He also took his game to the national level and three times made the starting field of the U.S. Open Championship (1937, 1951 and 1957).
Three times he paired with fellow Hall of Fame member John Barnum, the head golf professional at Blythefield Country Club, to win the Michigan PGA Pro-Am state championship. The local duo bested the field in 1951, ’62 and ’63.
At the state amateur level, he was runner-up twice in the Michigan Amateur Championship, falling in 1946 to Louis Wendrow of Lansing 1-up, and in 1949 to Tom Draper of Detroit 3 and 2. Both title matches were at Belvedere Golf Club in Charlevoix.