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Saturday 11 June 1949Men’s majorsYear in Review
Middlecoff wins U.S. Open
Medinah Country Club, Medinah, Illinois · Thursday 9 to Saturday 11 June 1949
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 00 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 71° up at noon, and that night a full moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R122°/10°C · wind 13 km/h E, gusts 32 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R228°/12°C · wind 10 km/h E, gusts 23 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R329°/18°C · wind 11 km/h SSW, gusts 27 · 1.2 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
Medinah C.C., Medinah
2 of 5 researched
Winner
286Total
+2To par
1 strokeMargin
Runner-up: Clayton Heafner, Sam Snead
The golfer
b. 1921-01-06, Halls, Tennessee, USA; United States; 1st 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