Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics explained

Event:Golf
Games:1904 Summer
Venue:Glen Echo Country Club
Dates:September 17–24, 1904
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At the 1904 Summer Olympics, two golf events were contested  - men's individual and team tournaments. The competitions were held from September 17, 1904 to September 24, 1904. It was the second and final appearance of the sport at the Olympics until the 2016 Summer Olympics. The men's individual event was switched to a match play tournament rather than the stroke play used four years earlier.[1]

Format

There were two golf events at the 1904 Olympic Games. The first was a team championship open to golf associations, and contested over 36 holes of stroke play by teams of ten amateur golfers with all scores counting towards the team total. It was followed by an individual event contested as a match play knockout by the leading 32 players following a 36-hole stroke play qualifying round, with each match played over 36 holes.[2]

Medal summary

Individual

Team

Western Golf Association
Edward Cummins
Kenneth Edwards
Chandler Egan
Walter Egan
Robert Hunter
Nathaniel Moore
Mason Phelps
Daniel Sawyer
Clement Smoot
Warren Wood

Trans-Mississippi Golf Association
John Cady
Albert Lambert
John Maxwell
Burt McKinnie
Ralph McKittrick
Francis Newton
Henry Potter
Frederick Semple
Stuart Stickney
William Stickney

United States Golf Association
Douglass Cadwallader
Jesse Carleton
Harold Fraser
Arthur Hussey
Orus Jones
Allan Lard
George Oliver
Simeon Price
John Rahm
Harold Weber

Participating nations

A total of 77 golfers from 2 nations competed at the St. Louis Games:

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics . Olympedia . 5 July 2020.
  2. News: Olympic Championship . September 14, 2021 . The Boston Globe . September 11, 1904 . Boston, Massachusetts . 43 . Newspapers.com . subscription.