Clyde Bowman Pearce (24 February 1888 – 10 June 1917) was an Australian amateur golfer.
[8] His opponent forfeited in the first round and in the quarter-finals he lost a close match against Jim Howden, the eventual winner, by one hole.
Pearce's 87 was the best amateur score of the first morning, although he dropped 9 strokes behind Michael Scott after an afternoon 93.
[12] Pearce moved to New South Wales in 1906 and didn't play in the Tasmanian Amateur in September.
[14] He reached the final, losing, 5 and 4, to Ernest Gill from Queensland, who had finished 11 strokes behind him in the open.
New Zealand amateur Arthur Duncan was second, with Dan Soutar the leading professional a further two strokes behind.
Pearce had a 10 and 8 win over Leslie Penfold Hyland in the quarter-final, scoring an approximate 73 in his morning round.
[24] Pearce played in the Victorian Amateur Championship in August 1909 at Royal Melbourne.
[29] In July 1910, Pearce and his brother Bruce played in the South Australian Amateur at Royal Adelaide, the venue for the championship meeting the following month.
[33] Pearce and his brother Bruce spent most of 1911 on a trip to Britain, leaving Melbourne at the end of February and returning there in mid-November.
[36] He finished in a tie for 6th place in Golf Illustrated Gold Vase after rounds of 73 and 83 at Stoke Poges.
[38] Pearce won a three-day amateur event at Peterhead Golf Club in July, beating James Shaw in the final.
His brother Bruce had won another Aberdeenshire event at Cruden Bay the previous week.
[39] They brothers played in the Irish Amateur Open Championship at Portmarnock at the end of August, both losing at the last-16 stage.
[44] The 1914 Western Australian championship meeting was again played on the Fremantle links in late August.
Norman Fowlie reversed the result of the 1913 Western Australian Open, winning by three strokes from Pearce, with rounds of 80 and 77.
[3] in early 1912 Pearce, together with fellow golfer Claude Felstead, started farming near Pingelly, Western Australia.
They bought the Chybarlis farm, between the townships of Pingelly and Mooterdine, south east of Perth.