| GOPRO | Stop competing as an amateur |
| INTHEEVENT | Competing, as it happened (2,3,5) |
| VYING | Competing, as for attention (5) |
| WATTEL | Frenchman who won as an amateur on the Challenge Tour and as a pro on the European Tour (6) |
| KYRIACOU | She won the Australian Ladies Classic as an amateur and the Big Green Egg Open as a pro (8) |
| RETIEFGOOSEN | TOUR star struck by lightning as an amateur |
| HAM | He broadcasts as an amateur actor (3) |
| LOWRY | He won the Irish Open as an amateur (5) |
| RINGER | Professional masquerading as an amateur, maybe |
| TURNEDPRO | No longer played as an amateur |
| LACOSTE | Catherine ___, who won the 1967 US Women's Open as an amateur |
| LEWIS | Englishman who, as an amateur, jointly led 2011 Open after a first-round 65 (5) |
| CHRISISAAK | Wicked Game singer who fought as an amateur boxer in a Police Athletic League: 2 wds. |
| LIAMNEESON | Taken actor who fought as an amateur boxer in Northern Ireland: 2 wds. |
| RODLAVER | The only person to have won tennis's Grand Slam as an amateur and a professional (3,5) |
| DREW | 2007 film starring Emma Roberts as an amateur sleuth (5,4) |
| NANCY | 2007 film starring Emma Roberts as an amateur sleuth (5,4) |
| ANGELALANSBURY | London-born actress who starred as an amateur sleuth in Murder, She Wrote |
| DABBLE | Possibly make a bit of a splash as an amateur ? (6) |
| HUSTLE | Pretend to be an amateur as a con |
