Golf Network News
Friday 20 June 1930Men’s majorsYear in Review
Jones wins the Open
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, England · Wednesday 18 to Friday 20 June 1930 · purse £400
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
16 h 45 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 60° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R1Not yet researched
- R2Not yet researched
- R3Not yet researched
- R4Not yet researched
The name over time
- The Open
1860–2026 in our record, 154 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
112 started, 60 (cut at 158) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
The Open
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Leo Diegel, Macdonald Smith
To par not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1902-03-17, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; USA; age 28 at the win (year page); 7th major (card's count)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet