Pritchett won the Boys Amateur Championship in 1948 beating David Reid, a Scot.

In 1953, at the age of 21, he was a runner-up in the Silver King Tournament behind Flory Van Donck.

[4] He won the 1955 Daks Tournament, which was played at Sunningdale, beating Dai Rees by 2 strokes and winning the first prize of £600.

Pritchett died in a road traffic accident on 30 October 1958 aged 27.

He was in a car being driver by Philip Scrutton, a leading amateur golfer, when they were hit by an army lorry on the A30, just west of Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire.