Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics

Golf
at the Games of the III Olympiad
Golf; at the Games of the III Olympiad
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]

George Lyon, winner of the golf tournament at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis

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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual details	George Lyon (CAN)	Chandler Egan (USA)	Burt McKinnie (USA) Francis Newton (USA)
Team details	United States (USA) Western Golf Association Edward Cummins Kenneth Edwards Chandler Egan Walter Egan Robert Hunter Nathaniel Moore Mason Phelps Daniel Sawyer Clement Smoot Warren Wood	United States (USA) 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 (USA) United States Golf Association^[a] 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:

Canada (3)
United States (74)

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	1	2	3	6
2	Canada	1	0	0	1
Totals (2 entries)		2	2	3	7

Notes

^ The IOC medalist database lists an American team as winning the bronze medal. Like all other teams in the database, the team is not named beyond "United States of America III" (the gold and silver medal teams are I and II, respectively). Unlike the other two teams, however, there are no participants listed in the bronze-medal team. The list of golfers on the USGA team, and the names of the golf associations sponsoring all three teams, can be found in other sources.

References

^ "Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
^ "Olympic Championship". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 11, 1904. p. 43. Retrieved September 14, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

Sources

International Olympic Committee results database
George Seymour Lyon - Olympic Individual gold medal winner 1904
Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Retrieved December 17, 2006.

[3] The IOC medalist database lists an American team as winning the bronze medal. Like all other teams in the database, the team is not named beyond "United States of America III" (the gold and silver medal teams are I and II, respectively). Unlike the other two teams, however, there are no participants listed in the bronze-medal team. The list of golfers on the USGA team, and the names of the golf associations sponsoring all three teams, can be found in other sources.

[1] "Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved July 5, 2020.

[2] "Olympic Championship". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 11, 1904. p. 43. Retrieved September 14, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

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