1916 U.S. Open Winner and Scores
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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