1902 U.S. Open Winner and Scores
Winner: Laurie Auchterlonie, 307
Where it was played: Garden City Golf Club in Garden City, New York
Tournament dates: October 10-11, 1902
Leader after first round: Jack Campbell, 77
Leader after second round: Laurie Auchterlonie, 156
Leader after third round: Laurie Auchterlonie, 230
What Happened in the 1902 U.S. Open
The winner of the 1902 U.S. Open was Laurie Auchterlonie, and he established two "firsts" to claim the trophy:- Auchterlonie was the first golfer in U.S. Open history to score below 80 in all four rounds;
- And he was the first golfer to win the U.S. Open using the newly invented Haskell ball.
One year earlier, Walter Travis won the U.S. Amateur and Sandy Herd won the British Open using Haskell balls. The Haskell made its way into the U.S. Open this year. Haskell balls had a solid core with rubber strips or threads wound around the core (a method of golf ball construction used throughout the remainder of the 20th century). They flew farther than the gutta-percha balls they replaced.
Auchterlonie trailed by a stroke following Round 1, but took the lead after the second and stretched it with a third-round 74. He wound up lowering the young tournament record by six strokes. Six shots was also his margin of victory over runner-up Stewart Gardner. In third was amateur Travis, who was the designer of the host golf course, Garden City Golf Club.
Auchterlonie, a Scotsman, played the British Open several times before emigrating to the United States. From 1899 through 1906, he finished in the Top 10 in seven out of eight U.S. Opens. His brother Willie Auchterlonie had already won a major, the 1893 British Open.
The 1902 U.S. Open was the only one played from 1901-1905 not won by Willie Anderson. Anderson tie for fifth place in this one.
1902 U.S. Open Final Scores
| Laurie Auchterlonie | 78-78-74-77—307 |
| Stewart Gardner | 82-76-77-78—313 |
| a-Walter Travis | 82-82-75-74—313 |
| Willie Smith | 82-79-80-75—316 |
| Willie Anderson | 79-82-76-81—318 |
| John Shippen | 83-81-75-79—318 |
| Charles Thorn | 80-82-80-77—319 |
| Harry Turpie | 79-85-78-78—320 |
| Donald Ross | 80-83-78-81—322 |
| Alex Ross | 83-77-84-79—323 |
| William Norton | 83-82-79-81—325 |
| David Brown | 80-88-82-76—326 |
| George Low | 83-84-78-81—326 |
| Jack Campbell | 77-87-79-85—328 |
| Jack Hobens | 85-82-80-81—328 |
| A.G. Griffiths | 79-86-82-83—330 |
| Horace Rawlins | 89-83-79-79—330 |
| Gilbert Nicholls | 88-86-73-84—331 |
| Alex Smith | 79-86-80-86—331 |
| Alex Campbell | 88-82-83-79—332 |
| James Foulis | 81-88-82-81—332 |
| John Harland | 82-82-83-85—332 |
| Willie Hunter | 82-82-81-87—332 |
| Fred Herd | 82-79-83-89—333 |
| Jack Park | 79-89-85-81—334 |
| George Braid | 85-81-84-85—335 |
| James Campbell | 88-84-82-81—335 |
| Bernard Nicholls | 89-84-84-79—336 |
| John Mackie | 88-82-84-84—338 |
| Alex Findlay | 85-81-87-86—339 |
| David Hunter | 83-81-91-84—339 |
| R.S. Patrick | 85-87-84-83—339 |
| William Donovan | 88-84-83-85—340 |
| David Ogilvie | 86-90-83-81—340 |
| Walter Fovargue n | 90-86-81-84—341 |
| a-Paul Murphy | 86-90-83-82—341 |
| Peter Eagan | 85-86-89-82—342 |
| John Young | 84-86-80-92—342 |
| John Pierson | 87-87-85-84—343 |
| David Leitch | 84-86-87-88—345 |
| a-Robert C. Watson | 88-85-86-86—345 |
| John Jones | 89-88-88-82—347 |
| a-Louis Livingston Jr. | 90-83-87-88—348 |
| Robert Thompson | 87-92-83-86—348 |
| David Patrick | 92-85-86-87—350 |
| Arthur Fenn | 92-93-83-84—352 |
| Jack Jolly | 84-97-95-86—362 |
| Robert Dow | 89-92-89-83—353 |
| Charles Seeley | 82-90-93-88—353 |
| a-Arthur Lockwood | 96-81-87-92—356 |
| Joe Mitchell | 91-84-92-89—356 |
| a-Charles Macdonald | 87-91-90-89—357 |
| a-Frank Croker | 90-88-87-95—360 |
| Willie Collins | 90-90-92-89—361 |
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