1916 U.S. Open Winner and Scores

The 1916 U.S. Open was the 22nd time the tournament was played and an amateur golfer named "Chick" was the champ.

Winner: Chick Evans, 286

Where it was played: Minikahda Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Tournament dates: June 29-30, 1916

Leader after first round: Chick Evans and Wilfred Reid, 70

Leader after second round: Chick Evans, 139

Leader after third round: Chick Evans, 213

What Happened in the 1916 U.S. Open Golf Tournament

Amateur Chick Evans won the 1916 U.S. Open, the second successive year and third time in four years the U.S. Open championship was claimed by an amateur.

Evans was one of the best amateurs of his or any other era, winning two U.S. Amateur titles — including the 1916 one a couple months after the Open, making him the first golfer to win the U.S. Amateur and Open titles in the same year — and many other top amateur crowns. Evans had five other Top 10 finishes in the U.S. Open, including a runner-up showing in 1914.

Evans opened with rounds of 70 and 69, the best opening two rounds in tournament history to this point — he was the first player ever to score below 140 in the first two rounds. Evans led by three at that point, and maintained a 3-stroke lead after the third round.

Evans had only one spot of trouble early in the final round and wound up winning by two strokes for the wire-to-wire victory. The runner-up was Jock Hutchison, whose final-round 68 was the best score of the day by three strokes, and the lowest final round score carded in a U.S. Open to this point. Jim Barnes, who won the first of his four career majors this year at the 1916 PGA Championship, was in second place at the start of the final round, but shot 74 and dropped to third.

Evans' 286 total set a tournament scoring record for 72 holes that wasn't matched until 1932 and wasn't bettered until the 1936 U.S. Open. Evans' scoring prowess was accomplished while playing with a set of only seven clubs, one of which was, of course, the putter. He also carried the equivalents of the 2- and 3-woods, plus the 2-, 4-, 6- and 9-irons.

The tournament wasn't played again until 1919, the 1917 and 1918 events being canceled by World War I.

1916 U.S. Open Final Scores

a-Chick Evans	70-69-74-73—286
Jock Hutchison	73-75-72-68—288
Jim Barnes	71-74-71-74—290
Gilbert Nicholls	73-76-71-73—293
Wilfred Reid	70-72-79-72—293
George Sargent	75-71-72-75—293
Walter Hagen	73-76-75-71—295
Bob MacDonald	74-72-77-73—296
Mike Brady	75-73-75-74—297
J.J. O'Brien	76-72-73-76—297
Tom Vardon	76-72-75-74—297
Jack Dowling	71-76-75-76—298
Walter Fovargue	76-74-74-75—299
Louis Tellier	74-75-72-78—299
Herbert Lagerblade	77-78-72-73—300
Tom McNamara	75-79-73-73—300
Robert Peebles	73-72-76-79—300
James Simpson	75-76-76-73—300
Otto Hackbarth	77-80-69-75—301
George McLean	77-76-74-74—301
George Turnbull	83-73-72-74—302
James Donaldson	79-75-75-73—302
Joe Mitchell	75-75-76-76—302
Bert Battell	76-75-75-77—303
Arthur Fotheringham	78-78-74-73—303
Fred McLeod	74-75-77-77—303
George Simpson	76-76-77-74—303
Alex Campbell	75-75-75-79—304
Alex Cunningham	79-75-75-77—306
James Ferguson	74-75-80-77—306
Tom Kerrigan	79-72-78-77—306
James Burke	81-76-76-74—307
Walter Clark	73-76-80-78—307
Norman Clark	76-78-78-76—308
Phil Gaudin	81-77-78-72—308
William Sherwood	78-76-76-79—309
Herbert Strong	78-77-77-77—309
James Wilson	79-79-74-77—309
Tom Boyd	80-78-79-75—312
a-Harry Legg	76-80-76-80—312
John Gatherum	78-75-80-80—313
a-James Worthington	77-77-79-80—313
Hugh Fletcher	76-84-74-80—314
Alfred Hackbarth	79-74-80-81—314
Clarence Hackney	80-77-76-81—314
Tom Morris	78-78-82-76—314
Arthur Clarkson	77-81-79-78—315
David Livie	77-77-80-81—315
Carl Anderson	81-77-80-79—317
Jack Croke	77-80-84-77—318
Charles Morton	83-77-80-78—318
Arthur Reid	77-76-83-83—319
Elwood Queen	76-75-86-83—320
a-Jimmy Johnston	86-75-85-82—328
Jack Jolly	78-84-82-84—328
H.L. Van Every	81-79-85-83—328

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