1905 U.S. Open Winner and Scores
Winner: Willie Anderson, 314
Where it was played: Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton, Massachusetts
Tournament dates: September 21-22, 1905
Leader after first round: Joe Lloyd, 75
Leader after second round: Alex Smith and Stewart Gardner, 156
Leader after third round: Alex Smith, 236
What Happened in the 1905 U.S. Open
Willie Anderson accomplished something in 1905 that was a first, and that remains unmatched in golf history: He won his third consecutive U.S. Open title.Of the first 11 U.S. Opens played, Anderson won four of them. This was No. 4, and all of Anderson's wins happened in the five years from 1901 through 1905. Four overall wins is still the tournament record: Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan and Jack Nicklaus have matched Anderson over the decades, but nobody has (yet) surpassed Anderson's four U.S. Open victories.
As noted, his victory at the 1905 U.S. Open was also Anderson's final one in the tournament. He played the U.S. Open five more times before dying at the end of 1910 at age 31.
Alex Smith and Stewart Gardner were the co-leaders at the halfway point, with a score of 156 for 36 holes. The first two rounds were played on Day 1, the third and fourth rounds on Day 2. On the second morning, Anderson shot 76 to move into second-place, one behind Smith (Gardner fell off the pace with an 85).
In the final round, Anderson shot 77 to Smith's 80 to win by two strokes. It was one of two times Smith finished runner-up to Anderson in this major, including an 18-hole playoff loss in the 1901 U.S. Open. Smith won the tournament the next year, at the 1906 U.S. Open, and again in 1910.
Joe Lloyd, winner of the 1897 U.S. Open, finished tied for 16th. He entered only once more, in 1908, but withdrew that year, making this his final finish in the tournament.
1905 U.S. Open Final Scores
| Willie Anderson | 81-80-76-77—314 |
| Alex Smith | 76-80-80-80—316 |
| Percy Barrett | 81-80-77-79—317 |
| Peter Robertson | 79-80-81-77—317 |
| Stewart Gardner | 78-78-85-77—318 |
| Alex Campbell | 82-76-80-81—319 |
| Jack Hobens | 82-80-81-78—321 |
| Gilbert Nicholls | 82-76-84-79—321 |
| George Cummings | 85-82-75-81—323 |
| Arthur Smith | 81-77-80-86—324 |
| a-Arthur G. Lockwood | 84-85-76-80—325 |
| a-Walter Travis | 81-80-80-84—325 |
| Alex Ross | 79-86-78-83—326 |
| Willie Smith | 86-81-76-83—326 |
| George Low | 83-82-81-81—327 |
| Joe Lloyd | 75-86-83-84—328 |
| Fred Mackenzie | 81-85-80-82—328 |
| Walter Clark | 86-81-82-80—329 |
| Fred McLeod | 80-84-80-86—330 |
| Tom McNamara | 81-79-82-89—331 |
| Bernard Nicholls | 80-82-85-84—331 |
| George Turnbull | 81-88-81-81—331 |
| Bert Way | 81-89-84-77—331 |
| Laurie Auchterlonie | 85-82-79-86—332 |
| Donald Ross | 83-83-86-81—333 |
| Jack Jolly | 82-83-85-85—335 |
| James Maiden | 80-86-83-86—335 |
| Robert Peebles | 81-81-86-88—336 |
| Isaac Mackie | 82-82-83-90—337 |
| Charles Murray | 84-85-83-85—337 |
| Arthur Fenn | 82-83-87-86—338 |
| James Foulis | 83-89-80-87—339 |
| A.G. Griffiths | 82-84-89-84—339 |
| John Jones | 89-82-87-81—339 |
| Charles Rowe | 86-79-83-91—339 |
| Harry Turpie | 80-86-82-91—339 |
| Fred Brand | 83-82-86-89—340 |
| Jack Campbell | 83-86-83-88—340 |
| John Dingwall | 84-88-89-79—340 |
| William Hoare | 89-80-86-85—340 |
| David Ogilvie | 90-80-85-85—340 |
| Horace Rawlins | 84-90-78-88—340 |
| David Hunter | 85-85-88-85—343 |
| John Mackie | 81-90-88-84—343 |
| John Oke | 85-84-86-88—343 |
| Herbert Strong | 88-85-83-88—344 |
| Orrin Terry | 91-82-86-85—344 |
| a-P. Gilbert | 81-87-91-86—345 |
| a-Fay Ingalis | 90-85-94-96—365 |
| George Pearson | 88-83-89-90—350 |
| David Robertson | 88-87-91-84—350 |
| a-A.L. White | 85-87-85-93—350 |
| David Brown | 85-85-88-94—352 |
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