All American Open Explained

All American Open
Location:Niles, Illinois
Establishment:1941
Course:Tam O'Shanter Country Club
Par:72
Tour:PGA Tour
Format:Stroke play
Final Year:1957
Month Played:August
Aggregate:269 Byron Nelson (1945)
To-Par:−19 as above
Final Champion: Roberto De Vicenzo
Map:USA#USA Illinois
Map Label:Tam O'Shanter CC
Map Relief:yes
Map Size:200
Coordinates:42.02°N -87.795°W

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

YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-upWinner's
share ($)
All American Open
1957 273 −15 4 strokes 3,500
1956 278 −10 2 strokes 3,400
1955 277 −11 3 strokes 3,420
1954 277 −11 1 stroke 3,420
1953 Lloyd Mangrum (3) 275 −13 3 strokes 3,420
1952 271 −17 8 strokes 3,420
1951 274 −14 2 strokes 2,250
1950 Bobby Locke (2) 282 −6 Playoff 2,500
1949 Lloyd Mangrum (2) 276 −12 1 stroke 3,333
1948 277 −11 2 strokes 5,000
1947 276 −12 Playoff 7,000
1946 280 −8 1 stroke 10,500
1945 Byron Nelson (4) 269 −19 11 strokes 10,200
1944 Byron Nelson (3) 280 −8 5 strokes 10,100
1943 282 −6 Playoff 2,000
Tam O'Shanter National Open
1942 Byron Nelson (2) 280 −8 Playoff 2,500
1941 278 −10 1 stroke 2,000

See also

References

Book: Barkow, Al . Al Barkow

. Al Barkow . The History of the PGA TOUR . . November 1989 . 0-385-26145-4 . 86–92 . registration .