1913 U.S. Open (golf)
Tournament information | |
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Dates | September 18–20, 1913 |
Location | Brookline, Massachusetts |
Course(s) | The Country Club |
Organized by | USGA |
Format | Stroke play − 72 holes |
Statistics | |
Par | 73 |
Field | 66 players, 54 after cut |
Cut | 165 (+19) |
Winner's share | ($300) |
Champion | |
Francis Ouimet (a) | |
304 (+12) | |
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The 1913 U.S. Open was the 19th U.S. Open, held September 18–20 at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb southwest of Boston. Amateur Francis Ouimet, age 20, won his only U.S. Open title in an 18-hole playoff, five strokes ahead of Britons Harry Vardon and Ted Ray.
Play
The first two rounds were played Thursday and the final two rounds on Friday. At the end of regulation, there was a three-way tie.[1] Ouimet defeated Vardon and Ray in a Saturday playoff round. Ouimet won with a score of 72 (–1), Vardon was second with 77, and Ray came in third with a 78. It was widely hailed as a stunning upset over the strongly-favored Britons and increased the popularity of the game in the United States.
Ouimet's victory was the first of eight times an amateur won the U.S. Open; Bobby Jones won four and the last was Johnny Goodman in 1933.
The U.S. Open returned to the course for the 50th and 75th anniversaries in 1963 and 1988, and the U.S. Amateur was held at The Country Club on the centennial anniversary in 2013; it also hosted the Ryder Cup in 1999. All four events, except the 2013 U.S. Amateur, were won by Americans.
Final leaderboard
Friday, September 19, 1913
Place | Player | Country | Score | To par | Money ($) |
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T1 | Francis Ouimet (a) | United States | 77-74-74-79=304 | +12 | Playoff |
Harry Vardon | Jersey | 75-72-78-79=304 | |||
Ted Ray | Jersey | 79-70-76-79=304 | |||
T4 | Walter Hagen | United States | 73-78-76-80=307 | +15 | 78 |
Jim Barnes | England | 74-76-78-79=307 | |||
Macdonald Smith | Scotland | 71-79-80-77=307 | |||
Louis Tellier | France | 76-76-79-76=307 | |||
8 | John McDermott | United States | 74-79-77-78=308 | +16 | 50 |
9 | Herbert Strong | England | 75-74-82-79=310 | +18 | 40 |
10 | Pat Doyle | Ireland | 78-80-73-80=311 | +19 | 30 |
- (a) - amateur
Playoff
Saturday, September 20, 1913
Place | Player | Country | Score | To par | Money ($) |
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1 | Francis Ouimet (a) | United States | 72 | –1 | 0 |
2 | Harry Vardon | Jersey | 77 | +4 | 300 |
3 | Ted Ray | Jersey | 78 | +5 | 150 |
Source:
References
- ↑ "Ouimet Ties Great English Golfers. Twenty-Year-Old Schoolboy's Wonderful Performance in National Open Golf". The New York Times. September 20, 1913. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
An American youth, Francis Ouimet, a stripling scarcely out of his teens, carved a niche for himself in international sporting history here to-day when he tied with England's famous professional golfers, Harry Vardon and Edward Ray, in the final round of the national open championship.
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