1935 U.S. Open (golf)

1935 U.S. Open
Tournament information
Dates	June 6–8, 1935
Location	Oakmont, Pennsylvania
Course(s)	Oakmont Country Club
Organized by	USGA
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Format	Stroke play − 72 holes
Statistics
Par	72^[1]
Length	6,981 yards (6,383 m)^[2]
Field	159 players,^[3] 66 after cut
Cut	161 (+17)
Prize fund	$5,000^[4]
Winner's share	$1,000
Champion
Sam Parks, Jr.
299 (+11)
«1934 1936»

Oakmont

Location in the United States

Oakmont

Location in Pennsylvania

The 1935 U.S. Open was the 39th U.S. Open, held June 6–8 at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, a suburb northeast of Pittsburgh. Sam Parks, Jr., a 25-year-old club pro at nearby South Hills Country Club with no prior tournament wins, prevailed by two strokes in difficult scoring conditions for his only major title.^[5]^[6] The purse was $5,000 and the winner's share was $1,000.^[4]^[7]

Jimmy Thomson owned the 36-hole lead after consecutive rounds of 73, despite severe weather that caused scores to soar.^[8] Sam Parks trailed by four, but in the third round he recorded a 60-foot (18 m) chip-in for eagle to tie Thomson, who shot a 77. The weather only got worse during the final round, and Thomson could do no better than a 78. Parks, however, shot a 76 for a two-stroke victory. Walter Hagen briefly led during the final round, but four consecutive bogeys knocked him back to third.^[5] It would be the last time that Hagen would contend in a major championship. Scoring conditions were so difficult that no player in contention broke 75 and 73 was the lowest score of the round.^[9]

Parks was certainly helped by his preparation for the tournament. Every day for a month, he stopped at Oakmont to play a practice round before returning to his own club. This practice paid off particularly on Oakmont's notoriously difficult greens, where he three-putted just twice in 72 holes. His winning score of 299 was the highest since 1927, also at Oakmont, and he was the only player to break 300.^[5] Born in nearby Bellevue, Parks was an alumnus of the University of Pittsburgh, where he had been captain of the golf team.^[10]

The field of 159 included six entrants from Japan and one from South Africa; the rest from 31 states and the District of Columbia.^[3] For the first time, a Japanese player made the cut at the Open. Kanekichi Nakamura was part of a tour of the U.S. by Japanese golfers and finished in 58th at 325. Chris Brinke captured low-amateur honors in 32nd place at 315, a stroke ahead of 1933 champion Johnny Goodman.^[11]

Oakmont had previously hosted the U.S. Open in 1927, the PGA Championship in 1922, and the U.S. Amateur in 1919 and 1925.

The Stimpmeter was inspired by the fast greens of this Open. Edward Stimpson, Sr., the Massachusetts amateur champion and a former captain of the Harvard golf team,^[12] devised a simple device and method to accurately measure the speed of greens.^[13]^[14]^[15]

Course layout

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	482	363	428	536	386	187	395	253	477	3,507	461	395	621	164	349	475	234	302	473	3,474	6,981
Par	5	4	4	5	4	3	4	3	5	37	4	4	5	3	4	4	3	4	4	35	72

Source:^[2]^[16]

Lengths of the course for previous major championships:

6,965 yards (6,369 m), par 72 - 1927 U.S. Open
6,707 yards (6,133 m), par 74 - 1922 PGA Championship

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Walter Hagen	United States	1914, 1919	77	76	73	76	302	+14	3
Gene Sarazen	United States	1922, 1932	75	74	78	79	306	+18	T6
Olin Dutra	United States	1934	77	76	78	77	308	+20	T12
Billy Burke	United States	1931	77	84	75	79	315	+27	T32
Johnny Goodman (a)	United States	1933	77	78	83	78	316	+28	T36
Willie Macfarlane	Scotland	1925	77	81	78	84	320	+32	T47
Johnny Farrell	United States	1928	77	79	84	82	322	+34	T52

Source:^[11]^[17]

Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Tommy Armour	Scotland United States	1927	74	WD

Source:^[17]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, June 6, 1935

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Butch Krueger	United States	71	−1
2	Roland MacKenzie	United States	72	E
T3	Herman Barron	United States	73	+1
	Cliff Spencer	United States
	Horton Smith	United States
	Jimmy Thomson	Scotland United States
T7	Tommy Armour	United States	74	+2
	Ed Dudley	United States
	Jim Foulis	United States
	Macdonald Smith	Scotland United States

Source:^[18]

Second round

Friday, June 7, 1935

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Jimmy Thomson	Scotland United States	73-73=146	+2
2	Butch Krueger	United States	71-77=148	+4
3	Gene Sarazen	United States	75-74=149	+5
4	Sam Parks, Jr.	United States	77-73=150	+6
T5	Al Espinosa	United States	75-76=151	+7
	Denny Shute	United States	78-73=151
	Ted Turner	United States	80-71=151
T8	Herman Barron	United States	73-79=152	+8
	Mortie Dutra	United States	75-77=152
	Vincent Eldred	United States	75-77=152
	Ray Mangrum	United States	76-76=152
	Horton Smith	United States	73-79=152

Source:^[17]

Third round

Saturday, June 8, 1935 (morning)

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Sam Parks, Jr.	United States	77-73-73=223	+7
T1	Jimmy Thomson	Scotland United States	73-73-77=223	+7
3	Ray Mangrum	United States	76-76-72=224	+8
T4	Walter Hagen	United States	77-76-73=226	+10
T4	Butch Krueger	United States	71-77-78=266	+10
T6	Henry Picard	United States	79-78-70=227	+11
	Gene Sarazen	United States	75-74-78=227
	Denny Shute	United States	78-73-76=227
T9	Vincent Eldred	United States	75-75-77=229	+13
	Al Espinosa	United States	75-76-78=229
	Dick Metz	United States	77-76-76=229

Source:^[4]^[7]^[11]

Final round

Saturday, June 8, 1935 (afternoon)

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Sam Parks, Jr.	United States	77-73-73-76=299	+11	1,000
2	Jimmy Thomson	Scotland United States	73-73-77-78=301	+13	750
3	Walter Hagen	United States	77-76-73-76=302	+14	650
T4	Ray Mangrum	United States	76-76-72-79=303	+15	500
T4	Denny Shute	United States	78-73-76-76=303	+15	500
T6	Butch Krueger	United States	71-77-78-80=306	+18	218
	Henry Picard	United States	79-78-70-79=306
	Gene Sarazen	United States	75-74-78-79=306
	Horton Smith	United States	73-79-79-75=306
T10	Dick Metz	United States	77-76-76-78=307	+19	95
T10	Paul Runyan	United States	76-77-79-75=307	+19	95

Source:^[4]^[7]^[11]

Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	5	4	4	5	4	3	4	3	5	4	4	5	3	4	4	3	4	4
Parks	+6	+7	+8	+9	+9	+9	+9	+9	+8	+8	+8	+8	+8	+8	+9	+10	+10	+11
Thomson	+7	+7	+6	+5	+6	+7	+8	+10	+9	+9	+9	+9	+9	+10	+11	+12	+12	+13
Hagen	+9	+9	+9	+8	+9	+11	+11	+11	+10	+11	+12	+13	+14	+14	+14	+15	+14	+14
Shute	+11	+12	+13	+13	+14	+14	+14	+14	+13	+13	+13	+14	+14	+14	+13	+15	+15	+15

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

	Eagle		Birdie		Bogey		Double bogey		Triple bogey+

Source:^[19]^[20]

References

↑ Bell, Jack (June 7, 1935). "Tricky Oakmont links baffles golfers in Open". Miami News. p. 12.
1 2 "Oakmont course par and yardage". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. June 6, 1935. p. 18.
1 2 Taggart, Bert P. (June 6, 1935). "Open field set to tee off at Oakmont today". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 1.
1 2 3 4 "Here's how prize money was dealt in National Open". Chicago Sunday Tribune. June 9, 1935. p. 7, part 2.
1 2 3 Bartlett, Charles (June 9, 1935). "Parks takes U.S. Open golf title with 299". Chicago Sunday Tribune. p. 1, sec. 2.
↑ Rice, Grantland (June 9, 1935). "Unknown Sam Parks wins National Open tourney". Miami News. p. 10.
1 2 3 "$5,000 in prizes to Open winners". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. June 10, 1935. p. 17.
↑ Bartlett, Charles (June 8, 1935). "Thomson's 146 tops National Open golf". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 21.
↑ "Parks, 26-year-old Pittsburgher, new U.S. Open champion". Montreal Gazette. Associated Press. June 10, 1935. p. 15.
↑ Huhn, Joe (June 6, 1932). "Sam Parks, Ted Luther lead at Oakmont". Pittsburgh Press. p. 26.
1 2 3 4 "National Open scores". Chicago Sunday Tribune. June 9, 1935. p. 7, part 2.
↑ "E. S. Stimpson '27 elected to lead Crimson golf team". Harvard Crimson. (Cambridge, Massachusetts). November 28, 1925. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
↑ Dvorchak, Robert (June 13, 2007). "Reading the greens". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. E-6.
↑ "Edward S. Stimpson". New York Times. UPI. March 28, 1985. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
↑ McCabe, Jim (June 15, 2016). "The real history of Edward Stimpson's special gift: The Stimpmeter". Golfweek. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
↑ "Sarazen first choice as Open begins today". Chicago Daily Tribune. June 6, 1935. p. 19.
1 2 3 "National Open scores". Chicago Daily Tribune. June 8, 1935. p. 23.
↑ Bartlett, Charles (June 7, 1935). "Krueger shoots 71 to lead National Open". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 25.
↑ "Winner's cards". Chicago Sunday Tribune. June 9, 1935. p. 7, sec. 2.
↑ "How Parks won". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. June 10, 1935. p. 16.

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Coordinates: 40°31′34″N 79°49′37″W / 40.526°N 79.827°W / 40.526; -79.827

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