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Saturday 6 June 1936Men’s majorsYear in Review

Manero wins U.S. Open

Baltusrol Golf Club, Springfield, New Jersey · Thursday 4 to Saturday 6 June 1936

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 49 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 72° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R1Not yet researched
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  4. R4Not yet researched

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

Baltusrol G.C., Springfield

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Tony Manero

282Total
−6To par
2 strokesMargin

Runner-up: Harry Cooper

The golfer

b. 1905-04-04, New York City, New York, USA; United States; 1st major (card's count)

Tony Manero’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet