Golf Network News
Saturday 7 June 1941Men’s majorsYear in Review
Wood wins U.S. Open
Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas · Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 June 1941
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 05 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 80° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R128°/17°C · wind 18 km/h E, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R228°/21°C · wind 22 km/h SSE, gusts 45 · 12.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R327°/20°C · wind 15 km/h SSE, gusts 27 · 7.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- 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
Colonial C.C., Fort Worth
2 of 5 researched
Winner
284Total
+4To par
3 strokesMargin
Runner-up: Denny Shute
The golfer
b. 1901-11-18, Lake Placid, New York, USA; United States; 2nd 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