Tournament information | |
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Location | Niles, Illinois |
Established | 1941 |
Course(s) | Tam O'Shanter Country Club |
Par | 72 |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Format | Stroke play |
Prize fund | US$25,000 |
Month played | August |
Final year | 1957 |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 269 Byron Nelson (1945) |
To par | −19 as above |
Final champion | |
Roberto De Vicenzo | |
Location Map | |
Location in the United States Location in Illinois |
The All American Open was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour in the 1940s and 1950s. It was played at the Tam O'Shanter Country Club in Niles, Illinois. It was run by George S. May and was originally known as the Tam O'Shanter National Open. From 1944 to 1946 it offered $10,000 winner's prize. The purses dropped to normal PGA Tour levels when May added the World Championship of Golf to the events played at Tam O'Shanter. May eventually added men's amateur, women's open, and women's amateur "All American" and "World Championship" events, all played at Tam O'Shanter over a two-week period in August. The tournaments were cancelled in 1958 in a dispute between May and the PGA over player entrance fees.
Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Winner's share ($) | |
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All American Open | |||||||
1957 | Roberto De Vicenzo | 273 | −15 | 4 strokes | Gene Littler | 3,500 | |
1956 | Dutch Harrison | 278 | −10 | 2 strokes | Earl Stewart | 3,400 | |
1955 | Doug Ford | 277 | −11 | 3 strokes | Leo Biagetti | 3,420 | |
1954 | Jerry Barber | 277 | −11 | 1 stroke | Gene Littler | 3,420 | |
1953 | Lloyd Mangrum (3) | 275 | −13 | 3 strokes | Ted Kroll Sam Snead | 3,420 | |
1952 | Sam Snead | 271 | −17 | 8 strokes | Tommy Bolt | 3,420 | |
1951 | Cary Middlecoff | 274 | −14 | 2 strokes | Fred Hawkins | 2,250 | |
1950 | Bobby Locke (2) | 282 | −6 | Playoff | Lloyd Mangrum | 2,500 | |
1949 | Lloyd Mangrum (2) | 276 | −12 | 1 stroke | Sam Snead | 3,333 | |
1948 | Lloyd Mangrum | 277 | −11 | 2 strokes | Bobby Locke | 5,000 | |
1947 | Bobby Locke | 276 | −12 | Playoff | Ed Oliver | 7,000 | |
1946 | Herman Barron | 280 | −8 | 1 stroke | Ellsworth Vines | 10,500 | |
1945 | Byron Nelson (4) | 269 | −19 | 11 strokes | Ben Hogan Gene Sarazen | 10,200 | |
1944 | Byron Nelson (3) | 280 | −8 | 5 strokes | Ed Dudley | 10,100 | |
1943 | Jug McSpaden | 282 | −6 | Playoff | Buck White | 2,000 | |
Tam O'Shanter National Open | |||||||
1942 | Byron Nelson (2) | 280 | −8 | Playoff | Clayton Heafner | 2,500 | |
1941 | Byron Nelson | 278 | −10 | 1 stroke | Leonard Dodson Ben Hogan | 2,000 |
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