All American Open

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.

Winners
YearPlayerCountryScoreTo parMargin
of victory		Runner(s)-upWinner's
share ($)
All American Open
1957Roberto De Vicenzo Argentina273−154 strokes Gene Littler3,500
1956Dutch Harrison United States278−102 strokes Earl Stewart3,400
1955Doug Ford United States277−113 strokes Leo Biagetti3,420
1954Jerry Barber United States277−111 stroke Gene Littler3,420
1953Lloyd Mangrum United States275−133 strokes Ted Kroll
Sam Snead		3,420
1952Sam Snead United States271−178 strokes Tommy Bolt3,420
1951Cary Middlecoff United States274−142 strokes Fred Hawkins2,250
1950Bobby Locke South Africa282−6Playoff Lloyd Mangrum2,500
1949Lloyd Mangrum United States276−121 stroke Sam Snead3,333
1948Lloyd Mangrum United States277−112 strokes Bobby Locke5,000
1947Bobby Locke South Africa276−12Playoff Porky Oliver7,000
1946Herman Barron United States280−81 stroke Ellsworth Vines10,500
1945Byron Nelson United States269−1911 strokes Ben Hogan
Gene Sarazen		10,200
1944Byron Nelson United States280−85 strokes Ed Dudley10,100
1943Jug McSpaden United States282−6Playoff Buck White2,000
Tam O'Shanter National Open
1942Byron Nelson United States280−8Playoff Clayton Heafner2,500
1941Byron Nelson United States278−101 stroke Leonard Dodson
Ben Hogan		2,000

See also

References

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

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