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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