1919 U.S. Open Winner and Scores
Winner: Walter Hagen, 301
Where it was played: Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton, Massachussetts
Tournament dates: June 9-12, 1919
Leader after first round: Charles Hoffner, 72
Leader after second round: Mike Brady, 148
Leader after third round: Mike Brady, 221
Notable Notes: Mike Brady led by five shots going into the final round, but stumbled to an 80 while Walter Hagen was shooting 75. The two golfers tied at 301, five ahead of anyone else, and entered into an 18-hole playoff. In the playoff, Hagen, already a major champion, won by one shot, 77 to 78.
In the second round, Willie Chisholm came up short on the par-3 eighth hole, his ball settling down in a gulley amidst pebbles, rocks and boulders. He began whacking at it, sometimes hitting a rock and missing the ball entirely, other times catching ball which then richocheted around. When he finally got onto the green and into the hole, Chisholm asked his playing partner, Jim Barnes, what his score was. "Willie, you took 18 for the hole," Barnes replied. Said Chisholm: "Jim, that cannot be so. You must have counted the echoes." But it was so, and that score has been "bettered" only once (in the 1938 U.S. Open) for the highest single-hole score in U.S. Open history.
Final Scores
Walter Hagen | 78-73-75-75—301 |
Mike Brady | 74-74-73-80—301 |
Jock Hutchison | 78-76-76-76—306 |
Tom McNamara | 80-73-79-74—306 |
George McLean | 81-75-76-76—308 |
Louis Tellier | 73-78-82-75—308 |
John Cowan | 79-74-75-81—309 |
Fred McLeod | 78-77-79-78—312 |
George Bowden | 73-78-75-86—312 |
a-Chick Evans | 77-76-82-78—313 |
Jim Barnes | 77-78-79-81—315 |
Harry Hampton | 79-81-77-78—315 |
Clarence Hackney | 83-78-81-74—316 |
Charles Hoffner | 72-78-77-89—316 |
Isaac Mackie | 82-75-78-81—316 |
Gilbert Nicholls | 81-78-82-77—318 |
Alex Ross | 77-78-77-86—318 |
Pat Doyle | 78-82-76-83—319 |
a-Francis Ouimet | 76-79-79-85—319 |
James West | 79-82-80-78—319 |
Alex Cunningham | 79-81-79-81—320 |
J.D. Edgar | 80-78-82-80—320 |
Wilfred Reid | 82-78-80-80—320 |
a-Jesse Guilford | 79-78-84-80—321 |
Archibald Sanderson | 85-79-83-74—321 |
Otto Hackbarth | 77-79-82-84—322 |
Tom Kerrigan | 80-79-82-81—322 |
Herbert Lagerblade | 79-80-82-81—322 |
George Fotheringham | 81-82-79-81—323 |
Bob MacDonald | 81-78-80-84—323 |
George Sargent | 84-79-82-78—323 |
a-John G. Anderson | 80-77-84-83—324 |
William Robinson | 81-78-85-80—324 |
a-John Bredemus | 83-79-86-77—325 |
Emmett French | 78-79-81-87—325 |
William Sherwood | 80-79-83-83—325 |
William Hoare | 82-83-82-79—326 |
James Macgregor | 83-78-82-83—326 |
Tom Mulgrew | 77-83-84-82—326 |
Arthur Reid | 84-80-81-81—326 |
George Low | 81-81-84-81—327 |
Willie Ogg | 82-79-81-85—327 |
a-Fred Wright Jr. | 82-83-81-81—327 |
George Gordon | 83-83-80-83—329 |
a-Ned Sawyer | 82-84-81-82—329 |
Wilbur Oaks | 84-85-79-82—330 |
James Crossan | 81-88-83-79—331 |
Matt Campbell | 81-85-88-78—332 |
Harry Cowie | 85-85-80-84—334 |
a-L.B. Patton | 86-79-87-83—335 |
a-R.D. Pierce | 83-82-89-84—338 |
Fred Canausa | 81-82-90-87—340 |
Alex Gerard | 83-84-83-90—340 |
Scotty Robson | 83-81-92-84—340 |
John Shea | 83-84-84-89—340 |
Eugene McCarthy | 82-85-90-83—340 |
a-Ralph Wales | 84-84-91-90—349 |