Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's individual

Men's individual golf at the Games of the III Olympiad
George Lyon during the golf tournament
Venue	Glen Echo Country Club
Dates	September 19–24, 1904
Competitors	75 from 2 nations
Medalists
George Lyon   Canada Chandler Egan   United States Burt McKinnie   United States Francis Newton   United States
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The men's individual was an event held as part of the golf programme at the 1904 Summer Olympics. It was the second time the event was held at the Olympics, though it took a much different format than the 1900 golf tournament. 75 golfers from two nations competed. The competition was held approximately 5.75 km north of the Olympic Stadium at Glen Echo Country Club from September 19 to 24, 1904. ^[1] The event was won by George Lyon of Canada, one of three golfers not from the host United States. Lyon defeated American Chandler Egan in the final, giving Egan the silver medal. Americans Burt McKinnie and Francis Newton were the defeated semifinalists, each receiving bronze.

Background

The first Olympic golf tournaments were held at the 1900 Games, with events for both men and women. One of the men's players was Albert Bond Lambert, who finished eighth in the (Olympic) men's tournament and first in the (non-Olympic) handicap tournament. Lambert and his father-in-law George McGrew, prominent businessmen in the St. Louis area, determined to bring golf to the 1904 Games that would be held in St. Louis. They founded the Glen Echo Country Club and pressed for the inclusion of golf on the programme with a tournament to be held at Glen Echo. ^[2] The result was the second Olympic golf tournament, though the women's individual event was dropped and a men's team event added.

Golf was later planned to be on the programme for the 1908 Games in London, but a dispute among the British golfers led to them all boycotting. With only the Canadian defending champion Lyon scheduled to compete (and him unwilling to accept a gold medal by walkover), the 1908 golf event was cancelled. Golf would not be held again at the Olympics until 2016.

Canada made its debut in the event. The United States made its second appearance, the only nation to have golfers at both of the first two men's individual golf tournaments.

Competition format

The format for the 1904 men's individual tournament was a grueling one. In contrast to the 1900 Games, which used a 36-hole stroke play tournament as the entire competition, the 1904 tournament started with a 36-hole stroke play qualifying round. This was followed by the top 32 qualifiers playing a 5-round match play tournament with each round consisting of 36 holes. Each round was played on consecutive days, resulting in the finalists playing six straight days of 36 holes of golf. No bronze medal match was played; both semifinal losers received bronze medals. ^[3]

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
Monday, September 19, 1904		Qualifying
Tuesday, September 20, 1904		Round of 32
Wednesday, September 21, 1904		Round of 16
Thursday, September 22, 1904		Quarterfinals
Friday, September 23, 1904		Semifinals
Saturday, September 24, 1904		Final

Results

Qualifying round

Golfers played two 18-hole rounds in qualifying play on September 19. The top 32 golfers advanced to match play. ^[4]

Rank	Player	Nation	Score	Notes
1	Ralph McKittrick	United States	163	Q
	Stuart Stickney	United States	163	Q
3	Francis Newton	United States	164	Q
4	Walter Egan	United States	165	Q
	William Stickney	United States	165	Q
6	Chandler Egan	United States	166	Q
	Mason Phelps	United States	166	Q
8	Albert Bond Lambert	United States	168	Q
9	George Lyon	Canada	169	Q
	Daniel Sawyer	United States	169	Q
11	Douglass Cadwallader	United States	170	Q
	Burt McKinnie	United States	170	Q
	Warren Wood	United States	170	Q
14	Robert Hunter	United States	171	Q
15	Henry Potter	United States	173	Q
16	Jesse Carleton	United States	174	Q
	Simpson Foulis	United States	174	Q
	Harold Weber	United States	174	Q
19	Orus Jones	United States	177	Q
	Nathaniel Moore	United States	177	Q
	Simeon Price	United States	177	Q
22	Harry Allen	United States	178	Q
	Arthur Havemeyer	United States	178	Q
	Clement Smoot	United States	178	Q
25	Edward Cummins	United States	179	Q
26	Frederick Semple	United States	180	Q
27	John Cady	United States	182	Q
	Abner Vickery	United States	182	Q
29	Harold Fraser	United States	183	Q
	Raymond Havemeyer	United States	183	Q
	Allan Lard	United States	183	Q
	William Smith	United States	183	Q
33	Bart Adams	United States	184
	William Burton	United States	184
35	Tim Boyd	United States	185
	Charles Scudder	United States	185
37	Edwin Hunter	United States	187
	Harold Simpkins	United States	187
39	John Rahm	United States	188
40	Arthur Hussey	United States	191
	Herbert Sumney	United States	191
42	Campbell Brown	United States	192
	Henry Case	United States	192
	Edgar Davis	United States	192
45	Robert Thach	United States	195
	George Powell	United States	195
	Charles Willard	United States	195
48	Clarkson Potter	United States	196
	George Thomas	United States	196
50	George Oliver	United States	197
51	W. A. Hersey	United States	198
52	John Brandt	United States	199
	Bernard Edmunds	United States	199
54	Frederick Newbery	United States	201
55	Alfred Annan	United States	202
	Leon Hazelton	United States	202
57	Murray Carleton	United States	203
58	Louis Allis	United States	205
59	John Watson	United States	206
60	Jarvis Hunt	United States	207
	Alexander Mackintosh	United States	207
62	Wallace Shaw	United States	209
	William Withers	United States	209
64	Joseph Howard	United States	210
65	Bertie Austin	Canada	211
66	James Stack	United States	213
	Meade Yates	United States	213
68	William Groseclose	United States	214
	Simon Harbaugh	United States	214
70	Edward Lansing	United States	219
71	Edward Gould	United States	222
72	Clarence Angier	United States	226
73	Albert Austin	Canada	230
74	Lee Jones	United States	240
—	Charles B. Cory	United States	DNF

Match play

Round of 32

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Burt McKinnie  (USA)

37h

Harold Weber  (USA)

–

McKinnie  (USA)

7&6

Robert Hunter  (USA)

8&7

Hunter  (USA)

–

Raymond Havemeyer (USA)

–

McKinnie  (USA)

4&3

Simpson Foulis  (USA)

5&3

Sawyer  (USA)

–

Henry Potter  (USA)

–

Foulis  (USA)

–

Daniel Sawyer  (USA)

8&7

Sawyer  (USA)

2&1

Jesse Carleton  (USA)

–

McKinnie  (USA)

–

William Stickney  (USA)

2&1

C. Egan  (USA)

4&3

Clement Smoot  (USA)

–

Stickney  (USA)

–

Harry Allen  (USA)

6&4

Allen  (USA)

4&3

Warren Wood  (USA)

–

Allen  (USA)

–

Nathaniel Moore  (USA)

12&10

C. Egan  (USA)

4&3

Orus Jones  (USA)

–

Moore  (USA)

–

Chandler Egan  (USA)

8&6

C. Egan  (USA)

7&6

Harold Fraser  (USA)

–

C. Egan  (USA)

–

Stuart Stickney  (USA)

7&6

Lyon  (CAN)

3&2

William Smith (USA)

–

Stickney  (USA)

–

George Lyon  (CAN)

5&4

Lyon  (CAN)

11&9

John Cady  (USA)

–

Lyon  (CAN)

5&4

Albert Bond Lambert  (USA)

7&6

Lambert  (USA)

–

Walter Egan  (USA)

–

Lambert  (USA)

1 up

Ralph McKittrick  (USA)

2&1

McKittrick  (USA)

–

Douglass Cadwallader  (USA)

–

Lyon  (CAN)

1 up

Mason Phelps  (USA)

6&4

Newton  (USA)

–

Frederick Semple  (USA)

–

Phelps  (USA)

12&10

Arthur Havemeyer  (USA)

8&7

A. Havemeyer  (USA)

–

Simeon Price  (USA)

–

Phelps  (USA)

–

Allan Lard  (USA)

10&9

Newton  (USA)

2&1

Abner Vickery  (USA)

–

Lard  (USA)

–

Francis Newton  (USA)

8&7

Newton  (USA)

2&1

Edward Cummins  (USA)

–

References

1. "Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics: Individual, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
2. "Individual, Men (1900)". Olympedia. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
3. "Individual, Men (1904)". Olympedia. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
4. "Golfers Tie In Medal Round" (PDF). The New York Times. September 20, 1904. Retrieved September 11, 2013.

Sources

• Wudarski, Pawel. "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich (Olympic Results)" (PDF) (in Polish). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 16, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2013.

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