1924 U.S. Open Winner and Scores

The 1924 U.S. Open was the 28th time the tournament was played. The little-remembered champ outlayed Bobby Jones in the final round to take the trophy.

Winner: Cyril Walker, 297

Where it was played: Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Michigan

Tournament dates: June 5-6, 1924

Leader after first round: Bill Mehlhorn, 72

Leader after second round: Bobby Jones and Bill Mehlhorn, 147

Leader after third round: Bobby Jones and Cyril Walker, 222

What Happened in the 1924 U.S. Open Golf Tournament

Cyril Walker denied defending champion Bobby Jones a second straight U.S. Open title, pulling away in the final round to win the 1924 U.S. Open.

Walker began the final round tied with Jones for the lead, then shot 75. That doesn't sound impressive until you realize that Walker's 75 was the second-best score of the final round over Oakland Hills' South Course.

This was the first U.S. Open and first major played at Oakland Hills, a track that three decades later would be called "this monster" by Ben Hogan following the 1951 U.S. Open.

Walker was the only player to finish the tournament below 300. Jones scored 78 in the final round, and a majority of the field failed to break 80 in Round 4.

The USGA's tournament history called Walker, who weighed 118 pounds at the time of this win, the U.S. Open's second-lightest champion. Fred McLeod weighed only 108 pounds at the time of his victory in the 1908 U.S. Open.

For Walker, this was the high point — by a long shot — of his tour life. He did record a couple other PGA Tour wins, but had only one other Top 10 finish in a stroke-play major. He was known as one of the slowest golfers of his time, perhaps one of the slowest golfers of all-time. (See our bio of Cyril Walker for more about this, including the time he was "arrested" for slow play.)

Walker was the club pro at Englewood Golf Club in Englewood, N.J., in 1924. A native of England, he worked several club pro jobs in America and also won a handful of state opens. He had a small fortune that was mostly wiped out during the Great Depression. Walker increasingly turned to drink, and wound up dying in jail cell in 1948.

1924 U.S. Open Final Scores

Cyril Walker	74-74-74-75—297
a-Bobby Jones	74-73-75-78—300
Bill Mehlhorn	72-75-76-78—301
Bobby Cruickshank	77-72-76-78—303
Walter Hagen	75-75-76-77—303
Macdonald Smith	78-72-77-76—303
Abe Espinosa	80-71-77-77—305
Peter O'Hara	76-79-74-76—305
Mike Brady	75-77-77-77—306
a-Chick Evans	77-77-76-77—307
Eddie Loos	73-81-75-78—307
Dave Robertson	73-76-77-81—307
Tommy Armour	78-76-75-80—309
Clarence Hackney	81-72-78-78—309
Willie Ogg	75-80-76-79—310
Joe Turnesa	76-78-78-78—310
Walter Bourne	78-76-79-80—313
Gene Sarazen	74-80-80-79—313
Johnny Farrell	79-76-77-82—314
Tom Kerrigan	77-74-89-74—314
Jock Rogers	82-77-77-78—314
Emmet French	79-79-78-79—315
Joe Kirkwood	77-80-80-78—315
James West	81-72-78-84—315
Laurie Ayton	77-79-84-76—316
Leo Diegel	78-78-82-78—316
Johnny Golden	75-83-78-80—316
Jack Stait	79-77-81-79—316
Wiffy Cox	82-76-81-78—317
a-Jesse Guilford	80-78-79-80—317
Otto Hackbarth	79-79-76-84—318
Jock Hutchison	84-79-74-81—318
Thomas Harmon	85-77-81-77—320
P.O. Hart	81-75-80-84—320
Charles Lorms	78-85-75-82—320
Jack Forrester	80-82-80-79—321
George Aulbach	77-84-80-81—322
Gunnar Nelson	76-85-76-85—322
Joe Novak	81-80-80-81—322
Charles Hoffner	78-76-85-84—323
Cyril Hughes	79-77-83-84—323
Fred McLeod	81-76-80-86—323
George Sargent	79-84-77-84—324
Andrew Kay	80-81-79-85—325
Doc Treacy	83-79-85-78—325
Jock Hendry	79-80-83-84—326
Richard Linares	86-82-78-81—327
Wilfred Reid	79-83-83-82—327
Dave Trufelli	84-83-78-82—327
D.D. Hackney	82-89-78-79—328
Eugene McCarthy	81-84-80-83—328
Frank Sprogell	80-83-85-81—329
Alex Campbell	78-80-89-84—331
Harold Long	84-81-83-85—333
Ben Lord	83-83-84-87—337
Joe Devaney	87-84-84-85—340
a-Arthur Sweet	81-88-87-87—343

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