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Friday 22 July 1921Men’s majorsYear in Review

Barnes wins U.S. Open

Columbia Country Club, Chevy Chase, Maryland · Thursday 21 to Friday 22 July 1921

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

The weather

14 h 19 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 71° up at noon, and that night a waning 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

Columbia C.C., Chevy Chase

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Jim Barnes

289Total
+9To par
9 strokesMargin

Runner-up: Walter Hagen, Fred McLeod

The golfer

b. 1886-04-08, Lelant, Cornwall, England; England (US-based); 3rd major (card's count)

Jim Barnes’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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