1913 U.S. Open (golf)

1913 U.S. Open

Tournament information
Dates	September 18–20, 1913
Location	Brookline, Massachusetts
Course(s)	The Country Club
Organized by	USGA
Format	Stroke play − 72 holes
Statistics
Par	73
Field	66 players, 54 after cut
Cut	165 (+19)
Winner's share	($300)
Champion
Francis Ouimet (a)
304 (+12)
«1912 1914»

The Country Club 

Location in the United States

The Country Club 

Location in Massachusetts

1913 winner Francis Ouimet holding a horseshoe; with Eddie Lowery his 10-year-old caddy, with a white towel around his neck

Vardon, Ouimet, and Ray

Vardon at the 1913 U.S. Open

Fred McLeod and Harry Vardon at the 1913 U.S. Open

The 1913 U.S. Open was the 19th U.S. Open, held September 18–20 at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb southwest of Boston. Amateur Francis Ouimet, age 20, won his only U.S. Open title in an 18-hole playoff, five strokes ahead of Britons Harry Vardon and Ted Ray.

Play

The first two rounds were played Thursday and the final two rounds on Friday. At the end of regulation, there was a three-way tie. Ouimet defeated Vardon and Ray in a Saturday playoff round. Ouimet won with a score of 72 (–1), Vardon was second with 77, and Ray came in third with a 78. It was widely hailed as a stunning upset over the strongly-favored Britons and increased the popularity of the game in the United States.

Ouimet's victory was the first of eight times an amateur won the U.S. Open; Bobby Jones won four and the last was Johnny Goodman in 1933.

The U.S. Open returned to the course for the 50th and 75th anniversaries in 1963 and 1988, and the U.S. Amateur was held at The Country Club on the centennial anniversary in 2013; it also hosted the Ryder Cup in 1999. All four events, except the 2013 U.S. Amateur, were won by Americans.

Final leaderboard

Friday, September 19, 1913

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
T1	Francis Ouimet (a)	United States	77-74-74-79=304	+12	Playoff
	Harry Vardon	Jersey	75-72-78-79=304
	Ted Ray	Jersey	79-70-76-79=304
T4	Walter Hagen	United States	73-78-76-80=307	+15	78
	Jim Barnes	England	74-76-78-79=307
	Macdonald Smith	Scotland	71-79-80-77=307
	Louis Tellier	France	76-76-79-76=307
8	John McDermott	United States	74-79-77-78=308	+16	50
9	Herbert Strong	England	75-74-82-79=310	+18	40
10	Pat Doyle	Ireland	78-80-73-80=311	+19	30

(a) - amateur

Playoff

Saturday, September 20, 1913

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Francis Ouimet (a)	United States	72	–1	0
2	Harry Vardon	Jersey	77	+4	300
3	Ted Ray	Jersey	78	+5	150

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External links

• 1913 U.S. Open
• Results at USGA site
• USOpen.com – 1913