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Saturday 11 October 1902Men’s majorsYear in Review

Auchterlonie wins U.S. Open

Garden City Golf Club, Garden City, New York · Friday 10 to Saturday 11 October 1902

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

11 h 04 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 41° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

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The name over time

  1. U.S. Open

1895–2026 in our record, 126 editions.

The ones it got away from

Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Men's major

U.S. Open

Garden City G.C., Garden City

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Laurie Auchterlonie

307Total
6 strokesMargin

Runner-up: Stewart Gardner, Walter Travis (a)

To par not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1867-12-08, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland; Scotland; 1st major (card's count)

Laurie Auchterlonie’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

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