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Year in Review
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Seven championships in our record: three men’s majors and four amateur championships. Bobby Jones won two of them: The Open and U.S. Open.
1926, printed the way a newspaper of the day would print it: a halftone.
Each dot is a championship at the week it finished. Click a dot for its front page, or a week to see it on the world.
Men's major
Salisbury Country Club, East Meadow
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Leo Diegel
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1892-12-21, Rochester, New York, USA; United States; age 33 at the win (year page); 8th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Al Watrous
To par not yet researched.
b. 1902-03-17, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; USA; age 24 at the win (year page); 3rd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Scioto C.C., Columbus
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Joe Turnesa
b. 1902-03-17, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; USA; 2nd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
No women’s major yet. The first in our record is the Women's Western Open, 1930.
Men's amateur championship
Muirfield (The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers), Gullane
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Fred Simpson
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1902-04-18, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.; United States; age 24 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Baltusrol Golf Club (Lower Course), Springfield
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Bobby Jones
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1901-03-20, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; age 25 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Royal St David's Golf Club, Harlech
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Marjorie Ross Garon
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1891-04-13, Silloth, England; England; age 35 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Merion Cricket Club (East Course), Ardmore
1 of 5 researched
Winner
Helen Stetson
Runner-up: Elizabeth Goss
To par and margin not yet researched.
Not yet researched
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Year in Review
Seven championships in our record: three men’s majors and four amateur championships. Bobby Jones won two of them: The Open and U.S. Open.
To be written The synopsis of 1926: 150 to 250 words on the season’s story, its turning points and why it mattered, written from sourced research.
To be written How each was won: the leader after 54 holes, the decisive shot, the runner-up, the weather.
To be written The amateur season: champions, finals, and who went on to turn professional.
7 tour events are laid out week by week for 1926.
To be written Money lists, players of the year, rookies and the shape of each tour’s season, from the tours’ own records.
Bobby Jones won two championships in our record (The Open and U.S. Open).
To be written Who defined 1926: their wins, their near misses, and what the year meant for their career.
To be written First-time major winners, scoring records, youngest and oldest champions, last appearances, events played for the first or last time.
To be written Equipment, rules and course changes, prize money, television and the business of golf that year.
Every count above is from Golf Network News’s record; the parts marked “To be written” are filled only from sourced research.
Every championship here comes from Golf Network News's own record: the rooms for the majors, the women's majors, the amateur championships and the team cups. A part that says it is not yet researched is exactly that. We fill it from sourced material, never with a guess.
The picture at the top is drawn in code for each year. It is printed the way golf was printed that year: wood engravings before 1900, newsprint halftones to 1945, hand-tinted plates to 1969, colour film to 1999, and digital light since. The names engraved in the numerals are that year's champions.
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