| 1922 British Open | |
It took until the 1922 British Open before a golfer born in the United States won golf's oldest championship, and Walter Hagen was the man who did it.
Hagen was already a three-time major winner, and he would go on to win this tournament three more times (and 11 majors total in his career).
It wasn't the first time Hagen denied Barnes a major. A year earlier, in the finals of the 1921 PGA Championship, Hagen beat Barnes 3 and 2 for the title. Barnes finally got his own Open Championship title in 1925.
Defending champ Jock Hutchison finished fourth. Two members of Britain's famed "Great Triumvirate" finished in the Top 10 - J.H. Taylor (sixth) and Harry Vardon (tie eighth) - the last time that happened in an Open.
1922 British Open Golf Tournament Scores
Results from the 1922 British Open golf tournament played at Royal St. George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England (x-won playoff; a-amateur):
| Walter Hagen | 76-73-79-72--300 |
| Jim Barnes | 75-76-77-73--301 |
| George Duncan | 76-75-81-69--301 |
| Jock Hutchison | 79-74-73-76--302 |
| Charles Whitcombe | 77-79-72-75--303 |
| J.H. Taylor | 73-78-76-77--304 |
| Jean Gassiat | 75-78-74-79--306 |
| Harry Vardon | 79-79-74-75--307 |
| Thomas Walton | 75-78-77-77--307 |
| Percy Alliss | 75-78-78-77--308 |
| Charles Johns | 78-76-80-75--309 |
| George Gadd | 76-81-76-77--310 |
| Arthur Havers | 78-80-78-74--310 |
| Len Holland | 79-81-74-76--310 |
| F.C. Jewell | 75-80-78-77--310 |
| Ernest Whitcombe | 77-78-77-78--310 |
| Aubrey Boomer | 75-80-76-80--311 |
| Adrian Wheildon | 80-80-76-75--311 |
| Abe Mitchell | 79-79-78-76--312 |
| Joe Kirkwood | 79-76-80-78--313 |
| Herbert Osborne | 80-81-76-76--313 |
| a-Michael Scott | 77-83-79-74--313 |
| a-Willie Hunter | 77-81-75-81--314 |
| Tom King Jr. | 83-78-78-75--314 |
| Walter Pursey | 77-81-80-76--314 |
| William Smith | 81-78-74-81--314 |
| Archie Compston | 81-79-75-80--315 |
| Gus Faulkner | 74-81-80-81--316 |
| Arthur Monk | 80-78-78-80--316 |
| William Watt | 82-78-79-77--316 |
| Tom Williamson | 83-77-75-81--316 |
| Harry Ball | 78-82-77-80--317 |
| Sandy Herd | 76-79-83-79--317 |
| James McKenzie | 78-81-80-78--317 |
| a-Roger Wethered | 76-78-83-80--317 |
| Fred Leach | 82-79-79-78--318 |
| Reginald G. Wilson | 75-84-82-77--318 |
| Arthur Butchart | 83-74-85-77--319 |
| Angel De la Torre | 83-80-81-75--319 |
| Claude Gray | 76-82-80-81--319 |
| a-Robert Harris | 80-83-74-82--319 |
| Andrew Kay | 82-81-78-78--319 |
| Albert Hallam | 83-83-77-77--320 |
| Thomas Renouf | 85-78-77-80--320 |
| a-Cyril Tolley | 87-80-78-75--320 |
| Charles Corlett | 81-82-78-80--321 |
| Ted Ray | 73-83-85-80--321 |
| Hugh Williamson | 80-82-83-76--321 |
| Charles McIlvenny | 80-82-77-83--322 |
| William Oke | 91-80-77-74--322 |
| George Kirby | 84-81-80-78--323 |
| Percy Rainford | 79-86-81-77--323 |
| Sid Brews | 81-83-80-80--324 |
| G.R. Buckle | 76-85-81-82--324 |
| Tom Fernie | 81-80-81-82--324 |
| William Twine | 80-81-83-80--324 |
| James Martin | 82-83-81-79--325 |
| Alfred Miles | 75-86-81-83--325 |
| Roy Donald | 85-80-80-81--326 |
| Rowland Jones | 81-90-81-75--327 |
| a-Ernest Carter | 81-84-79-84--328 |
| John Fernie | 81-88-80-79--328 |
| a-Angus Hambro | 84-82-83-79--328 |
| Mark Seymour | 78-88-82-80--328 |
| a-E.H.W. Scott | 87-77-83-82--329 |
| Joseph Cheal | 87-80-82-81--330 |
| Jack B. Ross | 80-84-82-84--330 |
| Percy Wyatt | 81-83-85-81--330 |
| a-E. Noel Layton | 85-84-84-78--331 |
| William Ritchie | 80-85-83-84--332 |
| Eddie Goodban | 84-82-86-81--333 |
| Henry Kinch | 80-89-86-78--333 |
| Harry Amos | 89-85-83-78--335 |
| Fred Jarman | 86-84-86-82--338 |
| C.H. Reith | 84-87-84-84--339 |
| C.W. Thomson | 82-90-84-84--340 |
| Walter Bourne | 81-89-86-86--342 |
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