1900 Summer Olympics / Golf

Golf at the II Olympic Games
information
venue	Compiègne
Competition venue	Société du Sport
Nations	4th
Athletes	22 (10 women, 12 men)
date	2-3 October 1900
decisions	2
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In the French capital Paris during the World Fair ( Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Paris ) discharged international competitions for Physical Education and Sport (Concours Internationaux d'Exercices physiques et de Sports) included two competitions in golf . The International Olympic Committee (IOC) assigned these competitions to the program of the 1900 Summer Olympics (Games of the Second Olympiad) .

Remarks

At the time, golf was a highly respected sport in high society and among the nobility. Even if cash prizes were already advertised at the golf tournaments at that time, the players were all considered amateurs, because nobody had to earn a living with them. So it should be understood that as early as 1912 the IOC, in order to come to terms with the history of the first five Olympic Games, made the decision to regard golf as an Olympic sport at the time.

The first golf tournament for women was held as early as 1810, and 33 years before the Olympic Games in 1900 there was already the first all-women golf club. It was therefore not unusual to have a competition for women only in Paris. Nevertheless, it was a significant event for the history of the Olympic Games.

The competitions took place on October 2nd and 3rd. The venue was the Société du Sport golf course in Compiègne , a town 80 km north of Paris. The course had nine holes. The importance that the organizers had attached to this golf tournament was also demonstrated with the awarding of the awards. The winner was the only competition to be honored with a gold plaque. The runners-up up to the fifth received a gold, a silver, a silver and a bronze plaque. A total of 22 players from 4 nations took part in the two competitions.

Medal table

space	country			Third	total
1	United States	2	1	1	4th
2	Great Britain	-	1	1	2

Results

Single men

space	country	player	Blows
1	United States	Charles Sands	167
2	GBR	Walter Rutherford	168
3	GBR	David Robertson	175
4th	United States	Frederick Taylor	182
5	FRA	John Daunt	184
6th	GBR	George Thorne	185
7th	GBR	William Dove	186
8th	United States	Albert Bond Lambert	189
9	FRA	Arthur Lord	221
10	FRA	A. Deschamps	231
11	GRE	Alexandros Merkati	246
12	FRA	van de Wynckélé	252

Date: October 2, 1900
12 participants from 4 countries

Four rounds with a total of 36 holes were played. The winner Charles Sands also took part in the tennis tournament, but was eliminated in the first round.

Single women

space	country	Player	Blows
1	United States	Margaret Abbott	47
2	United States	Pauline Whittier	49
3	United States	Daria Pratt	55
4th	FRA	Froment-Meurice	56
5	GBR	Ellen Ridgway	57
6th	FRA	Madeleine Fournier-Sarlovèze	58
7th	United States	Mary Abbott	65
	FRA	Lucile de Fain	65
9	FRA	Rose Gelbert	76
10	FRA	A. Brun	80

Date: October 3, 1900
10 participants from 2 countries

Only one round of nine holes was played. In some publications, the runner-up Pauline Whittier is given as Swiss . Although she belonged to the St. Moritz Golf Club , she had US citizenship, was only in Switzerland for training and then returned to the USA.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
• Karl Lennartz , Walter Teutenberg: II. Olympic Games 1900 in Paris. Presentation and sources. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-928562-20-7 .
• Bill Mallon : The 1900 Olympic Games . McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina 1998, CIP 97-36094.

Web links

• Side of the IOC to the Summer Games in 1900 (English)
• Official report (French, PDF, 3 parts in total; 8.10 MB)
• Page about all Olympic participants by Herman de Wael (English)