All American Open

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All American Open
Tournament information
Location Niles, Illinois
Established1941
Course(s) Tam O'Shanter Country Club
Par72
Tour(s) PGA Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund US$25,000
Month playedAugust
Final year1957
Tournament record score
Aggregate269 Byron Nelson (1945)
To par−19 as above
Final champion
Flag of Argentina.svg Roberto De Vicenzo
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Tam O'Shanter CC
Location in the United States
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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.

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Winners

YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-upWinner's
share ($)
All American Open
1957 Flag of Argentina.svg Roberto De Vicenzo 273−154 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Gene Littler 3,500
1956 Flag of the United States.svg Dutch Harrison 278−102 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Earl Stewart 3,400
1955 Flag of the United States.svg Doug Ford 277−113 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Leo Biagetti 3,420
1954 Flag of the United States.svg Jerry Barber 277−111 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Gene Littler 3,420
1953 Flag of the United States.svg Lloyd Mangrum (3)275−133 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Ted Kroll
Flag of the United States.svg Sam Snead
3,420
1952 Flag of the United States.svg Sam Snead 271−178 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Tommy Bolt 3,420
1951 Flag of the United States.svg Cary Middlecoff 274−142 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Fred Hawkins 2,250
1950 Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg Bobby Locke (2)282−6Playoff Flag of the United States.svg Lloyd Mangrum 2,500
1949 Flag of the United States.svg Lloyd Mangrum (2)276−121 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Sam Snead 3,333
1948 Flag of the United States.svg Lloyd Mangrum 277−112 strokes Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg Bobby Locke 5,000
1947 Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg Bobby Locke 276−12Playoff Flag of the United States.svg Ed Oliver 7,000
1946 Flag of the United States.svg Herman Barron 280−81 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Ellsworth Vines 10,500
1945 Flag of the United States.svg Byron Nelson (4)269−1911 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Ben Hogan
Flag of the United States.svg Gene Sarazen
10,200
1944 Flag of the United States.svg Byron Nelson (3)280−85 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Ed Dudley 10,100
1943 Flag of the United States.svg Jug McSpaden 282−6Playoff Flag of the United States.svg Buck White 2,000
Tam O'Shanter National Open
1942 Flag of the United States.svg Byron Nelson (2)280−8Playoff Flag of the United States.svg Clayton Heafner 2,500
1941 Flag of the United States.svg Byron Nelson 278−101 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Leonard Dodson
Flag of the United States.svg Ben Hogan
2,000

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References

Barkow, Al (November 1989). The History of the PGA TOUR . Doubleday. pp.  86–92. ISBN   0-385-26145-4.