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The Majors of Golf

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The Majors of Golf

Complete Results of The Open, the

U.S. Open, the PGA Championship

and the Masters, 1860–2008

MORGAN G. BRENNER

Volume 1

(Introduction; Abbreviations;

The Open; U.S. Open)

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

Jefferson, North Carolina, and London

Volume 1

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Brenner, Morgan G.

The majors of golf : complete results of The Open, the U.S. Open,

the PGA Championship and the Masters, 1860–2008 /

Morgan G. Brenner.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

3 volume set—

ISBN 978-0-7864-3360-5

softcover : 50# alkaline paper

¡. Golf—Tournaments—History. 2. Golf—Records.

I. Title.

GV970.B72 2009 796.352'66—dc22 2009019843

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©2009 Morgan G. Brenner. All rights reserved

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or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system,

without permission in writing from the publisher.

Cover photograph: The U.S. Open Trophy near the ¡8th green during

the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines (photograph by Wendy Uzelac)

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book would not be what it is without the assistance of many people who

gave unselfishly of their time and knowledge.

The following were virtually indispensable in over-all assistance: Paul H. Card￾well, former Chairman of Green, Royal Lytham & St. Anne’s Golf Club, Lytham

St. Anne’s, Lancashire, England; Mary Patricia “Patty” Moran, Research Assistant

(retired), USGA Library, Far Hills, New Jersey; Peter C. Trenham, St. Davids Coun￾try Club, Wayne, Pennsylvania (retired), Philadelphia Section PGA Historian;

Joanne Findlay Docherty, University of Glasgow Library, Glasgow, Scotland.

The following made major contributions: Malcolm Campbell, David Joy, Tim

Cronin, John Llewellyn, Mark F. Emerson, Rhod McEwan, Hamish Frew, Michael

Neary, Norman F. Fox, John Pearson, Jack Garvin, Philip D. Newcamp, Lee Gru￾enfeld (aka Troon McAllister), Royal Canadian Golf Association, Harold C. Guy,

Mark Rowlinson, Jim Healey, Dougas Seaton, Roy Hobbis, Alistair Smith, Clive

Jones, Tom Steinhardt, Philip A. Truett.

The golfers who responded to e-mail and telephone requests for clarification

of their name.

The managers, secretaries, historians, et al., of golf clubs in the United States

and in the United Kingdom who responded to e-mail and telephone requests for

information.

The librarians in the United States and in the United Kingdom who provided

photocopies of newspaper microfilm.

The Augusta National Golf Club, Media Relations Department

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews

The United States Golf Association Library

The United States Professional Golfers Association, Media Relations Depart￾ment

And most importantly, Elsa, for her patience and encouragement.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Volume 1 •

Acknowledgments v

Introduction 1

Key to Abbreviations 3

Part I. The Tournaments 7

The Open Championship 9

U.S. Open Championship 200

• Volume 2 •

Professional Golfers Association of America Championship 397

Masters Tournament 518

Part II. The Players, A–G 597

• Volume 3 •

Part II. The Players, H–Z 877

Appendix A. Tournament Information 1373

Appendix B. Data Discrepancies 1385

Appendix C. Players’ Name Variations 1388

Bibliography 1391

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INTRODUCTION

In October of 1860, officials of Scotland’s Prestwick Golf Club extended an invitation to

the 30 or so golf clubs then operating in Scotland and England to send up to three “respectable

caddies” to compete in a golf tournament. Eight professional golfers entered. Willie Park, Sr.,

went around the 12-hole course three times in one day in 174 strokes to become the first win￾ner of what would become The Open Championship.

The next year, officials opened the event to amateurs. Ten professionals and eight amateurs

entered. “Old Tom” Morris won with a score of 163. The Open Championship truly had begun.

In 1895 the United States Golf Association began its open tournament, and in 1916 the

Professional Golfers Association of America started its championship tournament. In 1934 a

new private club in Georgia, the Augusta National, conducted a tournament for 73 selected

professionals and amateurs and gave birth to the Masters.

These four tournaments eventually became known as the Majors.

They were not, however, always the premier golf events. Originally, the U.S. Open, The

Open Championship, the U.S. Amateur, and the Amateur Championship (Great Britain) were

considered the most important tournaments, although not known as the Majors.

The term Major is not an official term. It is a title or designation bestowed by the media

with the blessing of the golf world for a tournament big enough and prestigious enough to attract

the most important players. Part is tradition; part is hype. An organizer or sponsor cannot just

conduct a tournament, attract the best players, offer lots of prize money, and expect it to be

accepted as a Major.

Between 1860 and 2008, 407 Majors have been played. This book is a compilation of the

results of all of them and of everyone who played in them.

The information is presented in two parts.

Part I is organized by tournament. Its year-by-year listing includes every player in order

of finish, including those who did not play the entire tournament. The data are final position,

round-by-round and total score, total score in relation to par, and winnings (prize money).

Due to space limitations, many nicknames of players are eliminated in this part unless they are

more commonly known by their nickname. The complete names, including all nicknames, are

included in Part II.

Part II is an alphabetical list of every player who participated in a Major. Data for each

appearance are final position, round-by-round and total score, total score in relation to par,

total score at the end of rounds two and three, position at the end of rounds one through three,

shots behind the winner (for the winner, shots ahead of the second place finisher), and win￾nings (prize money).

Appendix A lists the sites, dates, and field data for all tournaments.

The Data

Prior to the later 20th century, much information on the Majors was incomplete, contra￾dictory, and inconsistent in newspapers, golf magazines and books, golf websites, and in the

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“official records” of the tournament organization. There are typos, calculation errors, and

confirmed wrong information. There are differences in the round and total scores for a player

and in the reason for a player not completing the entire tournament. Participants sometimes

appear in one source and not in another.

Within a particular source, there are inaccuracies in the finish position—some miscalcu￾lations, some typos—and round scores that do not calculate to the listed total score. Newspa￾pers sometimes show a player in the round 1 results list with, for example, 71 and then in the

round 2 results list with 73/79. Different publications frequently have result lists of different

lengths and with different scores.

The “official records” used as the primary reference sources for this book are the annual

Media Guides produced by the Masters Tournament and the PGA Championship, the “Record

Books” produced by the USGA, Royal and Ancient Championships 1860–1980 (with a supple￾ment from 1981–1984) published by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club and edited by Peter Ryde,

and the “History” pages of the R&A Website, http://www.opengolf.com

The figures from these sources were accepted unless there were obvious errors which could

be corrected and verified. Then current newspapers and golf periodicals, assumed to be correct

for their timeliness, were used to cross check the results. Players and scores not in the “official

records” were added from these publications. Some clarifying information was obtained directly

from the tournament operating organization.

Nevertheless, questions remain, though all attempts have been made to ensure accuracy.

Two appendices are included to detail inconsistencies.

Appendix B is a list of all players for whom there are known data discrepancies. There may

be others. They are listed by player, event, and year.

There also are complications with players’ names. Over the years there have been many

players with the same or similar given name and surname with only a middle name or initial

to differentiate them. And there are those whose names sometimes are recorded with only an

initial or two—or three. Sources frequently are inconsistent from round-to-round and from

tournament-to-tournament in the spelling of names. There are even confirmed mis-spellings.

The players themselves sometimes apparently registered for a tournament with their names in

different forms from year-to-year and in different tournaments in the same year. In order to

reduce confusion, an effort was made to use actual given names and middle initials/names.

When differentiation of similar names was not possible, both or all of the similar names have

their own entries.

Appendix C is a list, with explanatory notes, of all players whose exact name may be open

to question.

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KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations are for column headings and are listed alphabetically.

Parts I and II

A: Player was an amateur in the tournament. In Part II, the use of “A” may seem inconsistent

from year to year. Occasionally a player was able to regain amateur status. In many cases,

sources do not include the “A” designation for a tournament for a player.

Event:

M: Masters Tournament

O: The Open Championship

PGA: Professional Golfers Association of America Championship

US: U. S. Open Championship

P/M: score in relation to par; 0 = score was at par; a minus sign (-) preceding the numeral indi￾cates below par

Pos: position of a player at the completion of the tournament; numeral indicates the position;

e.g., 5 = fifth place

T indicates a tie for the position; e.g., 5T = tie for fifth place

PO indicates the position was the result of a playoff; e.g., 5PO = won playoff for 5th place

CUT: cut after round 2 or round 3. Round 3 cuts are listed before round 2 cuts.

DF: defaulted (forfeited a match)

DQ: disqualified; disqualifications later in the tournament are listed after earlier disqualifications.

WD: withdrew

UNK: unknown; round scores are unknown and, therefore, position is unknown

Player: player’s name. For some players, following the name are (earlier) or (later). Such indi￾cates that the player is either earlier or later in elapsed years from another player with the

same name. For some players, parentheses following the name contain a country to dis￾tinguish two players with the same name.

R1: round 1 score

R2: round 2 score

R3: round 3 score

R4: round 4 score

R2T: score after round 2 (sum of R1 + R2)

R3T: score after round 3 (sum of R1 + R2 + R3)

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R1P: position at the completion of round 1; T indicates a tie for the position. Round positions

are not provided for a tournament in which scores for that round for one or more players

are unknown.

R2P: position at the completion of round 2; T indicates a tie for the position. Round positions

are not provided for a tournament in which scores for that round for one or more players

are unknown.

R3P: position at the completion of round 3; T indicates a tie for the position. Round positions

are not provided for a tournament in which scores for that round for one or more players

are unknown.

SBW: number of shots behind the winner at the completion of the tournament; for the win￾ner, a minus sign (-) preceding the numeral indicates the number of shots ahead of sec￾ond place.

Tot: total score (sum of R1-R4)

W: monetary award paid to a professional player based on his final position. Amounts are shown

in United Sates dollars (USD) for all United States tournaments and in pounds (GBP) for

The Open Championship. Winnings are rounded to the nearest whole dollar or pound.

All winnings for home tournaments are unknown.

Year: year in which the tournament was held. “Tournament Not Held” indicates that the tour￾nament was not conducted. In 1871 The Open Championship was not conducted by deci￾sion of the tournament operating organization. In other years tournaments were not

conducted because of World War I and World War II.

Appendices

City: city and state (county in the United Kingdom) in or near which the club or course is or

was located

Com: completed; i.e, number of players who played the entire tournament

Course: name of the specific course at the club over which the tournament was played

Cut: number of players who “missed the cut(s)”

Dates: month and days of the month during which the tournament was played; i.e., first day

through last day; dates are in United States format, mm/dd/yr

Days: number of days over which the tournament was played, including rain days and sched￾uled “off days”

DF: defaulted; i.e., number of players who defaulted (forfeited) a match

DQ: disqualified; i.e., number of players who were disqualified

Event:

M: Masters Tournament

O: The Open Championship

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PGA: Professional Golfers Association of America Championship

US: U. S. Open Championship

Fday: first day; day of the week on which the tournament began

Field: number of players scheduled to participate in the tournament. Field is a most uncertain

number until the later 1900s when the field for all tournaments generally was set at 156.

For early tournaments, contradictions exist from publication to publication and in edi￾tions of the same publication. The “numbers” in this book may not be those found in var￾ious publications, for they are the result of all of the players who apparently did and/or

were scheduled to participate as determined by research. For a number of tournaments,

players were added to those in the “official records” from research.

Holes: total number of holes played in the tournament, not including play-offs (stroke play tour￾naments only)

MC1: missed Cut 1; number of players who were cut after round 2 in tournaments in which

there were two cuts

MC2: missed Cut 2; number of players who were cut after round 3 in tournaments in which

there were two cuts. Cuts after round 3, in addition to those made after round 2, were

made in The Open Championship from 1968 through 1985 and in the PGA Champi￾onship from 1958 through 1960 and in 1962 and 1964.

Name May Be: possible name of the player (unconfirmed) other than that in column 1

Num: number indicating the sequential number of the tournament; e.g., 43 = 43rd U.S. Open

Championship

Par: par for the course over which the tournament was played

Player: player’s name. For some players, following the name are (earlier) or (later). Such indi￾cates that the player is either earlier or later in elapsed years from another player with the

same name. For some players, parentheses following the name contain a country abbrevi￾ation to distinguish two players with the same name.

Rounds: number of holes played in each round on each day of the tournament including play￾offs; days are separated by a dash; multiple rounds in a day are within parentheses. For

several tournaments, the rounds are shown as 4@9 while the scores are for two rounds of

18 holes.

P = round postponed by weather

O = scheduled “off day”

PO = playoff (preceded by numeral indicating the number of holes played); example: 18-

18-P-(18 18+2PO); one round of eighteen holes on days one and two; day three was post￾poned; two rounds of 18 holes each plus a 2-hole playoff on day 4.

Site: name of the club or course at which the tournament was played

CC = Country Club

G&CC = Golf and Country Club

GC = Golf Club

GL = Golf Links

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UNK: number of players whose round scores are unknown and whose, position, therefore, is

unknown

WD: withdrew; number of players who withdrew before the completion of the tournament.

Withdrawals earlier in the tournament are listed before later withdrawals; withdrawals dur￾ing a round are listed before those after a round.

Yards: recognized yards at which the course played. The recognized yardage is that listed by the

tournament operating organization as official. However, the course may or may not have

played to that yardage, and the yardage sometimes was adjusted from round to round.

Year: year in which the tournament was held. “Tournament Not Held” indicates that the tour￾nament was not conducted. In 1871, The Open Championship was not conducted by deci￾sion of the tournament operating organization. In other years tournaments were not

conducted because of World War I and World War II.

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