| 1916 U.S. Open | |
Amateur Chick Evans won the 1916 U.S. Open, the second straight year and third time in four years the Open championship was claimed by an amateur.
Evans was one of the best amateurs of his or any other era, winning two U.S. Amateur titles - including the 1916 one, making him the first golfer to win the U.S. Amateur and Open titles in the same year - and many other top amateur crowns.
Evans opened with rounds of 70 and 69, the best opening two rounds in tournament history to this point, making him the first player to score below 140 in the first two rounds. Evans led by three at that point, and maintained a 3-stroke lead after the third round.
Evans had only one spot of trouble early in the final round and wound up winning by two strokes for the wire-to-wire victory. The runner-up was Jock Hutchison, whose final-round 68 was the best score of the day by three strokes, and the lowest final round score carded in a U.S. Open to this point.
Evans' 286 total set a tournament scoring record for 72 holes that stood until the 1936 U.S. Open. Evans' scoring prowess was accomplished while playing with a set of only seven clubs, one of which was, of course, the putter.
The 1916 U.S. Open was the last one played over only two days (first two rounds on Day 1, final two rounds on Day 2). Beginning in 1919, the tournament moved to a 3-day format.
The tournament wasn't played again until 1919, the 1917 and 1918 events being canceled by World War I.
1916 U.S. Open Golf Tournament Scores
Results from the 1916 U.S. Open golf tournament played at The Minikahda Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota (a-amateur):
| a-Chick Evans | 70-69-74-73--286 | |
| Jock Hutchison | 73-75-72-68--288 | $300 |
| Jim Barnes | 71-74-71-74--290 | $150 |
| Gilbert Nicholls | 73-76-71-73--293 | $83 |
| Wilfred Reid | 70-72-79-72--293 | $83 |
| George Sargent | 75-71-72-75--293 | $83 |
| Walter Hagen | 73-76-75-71--295 | $60 |
| Bob MacDonald | 74-72-77-73--296 | $50 |
| Mike Brady | 75-73-75-74--297 | $30 |
| J.J. O'Brien | 76-72-73-76--297 | $30 |
| Tom Vardon | 76-72-75-74--297 | $30 |
| Jack Dowling | 71-76-75-76--298 | |
| Walter Fovargue | 76-74-74-75--299 | |
| Louis Tellier | 74-75-72-78--299 | |
| Herbert Lagerblade | 77-78-72-73--300 | |
| Tom McNamara | 75-79-73-73--300 | |
| Robert Peebles | 73-72-76-79--300 | |
| James Simpson | 75-76-76-73--300 | |
| Otto Hackbarth | 77-80-69-75--301 | |
| George McLean | 77-76-74-74--301 | |
| George Turnbull | 83-73-72-74--302 | |
| James Donaldson | 79-75-75-73--302 | |
| Joe Mitchell | 75-75-76-76--302 | |
| Bert Battell | 76-75-75-77--303 | |
| Arthur Fotheringham | 78-78-74-73--303 | |
| Fred McLeod | 74-75-77-77--303 | |
| George Simpson | 76-76-77-74--303 | |
| Alex Campbell | 75-75-75-79--304 | |
| Alex Cunningham | 79-75-75-77--306 | |
| James Ferguson | 74-75-80-77--306 | |
| Tom Kerrigan | 79-72-78-77--306 | |
| James Burke | 81-76-76-74--307 | |
| Walter Clark | 73-76-80-78--307 | |
| Norman Clark | 76-78-78-76--308 | |
| Phil Gaudin | 81-77-78-72--308 | |
| William Sherwood | 78-76-76-79--309 | |
| Herbert Strong | 78-77-77-77--309 | |
| James Wilson | 79-79-74-77--309 | |
| Tom Boyd | 80-78-79-75--312 | |
| a-Harry Legg | 76-80-76-80--312 | |
| John Gatherum | 78-75-80-80--313 | |
| a-James Worthington | 77-77-79-80--313 | |
| Hugh Fletcher | 76-84-74-80--314 | |
| Alfred Hackbarth | 79-74-80-81--314 | |
| Clarence Hackney | 80-77-76-81--314 | |
| Tom Morris | 78-78-82-76--314 | |
| Arthur Clarkson | 77-81-79-78--315 | |
| David Livie | 77-77-80-81--315 | |
| Carl Anderson | 81-77-80-79--317 | |
| Jack Croke | 77-80-84-77--318 | |
| Charles Morton | 83-77-80-78--318 | |
| Arthur Reid | 77-76-83-83--319 | |
| Elwood Queen | 76-75-86-83--320 | |
| a-Jimmy Johnston | 86-75-85-82--328 | |
| Jack Jolly | 78-84-82-84--328 | |
| H.L. Van Every | 81-79-85-83--328 |
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