1904 Summer Olympics / Golf

Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Normandy (Missouri)
Competition venue	Glen Echo Country Club
Nations	2
Athletes	77 (77 )
date	16.-24. September 1904
decisions	2
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With the III. Olympics 1904 in St. Louis found two competitions in golf instead. The venue was the site of the Glen Echo Country Club, founded three years earlier in the suburb of Normandy west of St. Louis .

When the club learned that the World Exhibition and the Olympic Games would be held in St. Louis, it applied to host the golf tournament and invested in a new building for the clubhouse. He sent invitations to numerous countries, but only three Canadians from abroad responded; all other participants were Americans. All players had to pay an entry fee of five dollars and promise that they were not professionals. A total of seven golf competitions took place between September 16 and 24, two of which were advertised as “Olympic”. The tournament week ended with a banquet at which the medals and trophies were presented.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	United States	1	2	3	6th
2	Canada	1	-	-	1
total		2	2	2	6th

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
singles	George Lyon ( CAN )	Chandler Egan ( USA )	Burt McKinnie ( USA )
team	Western Golf Association Edward Cummins , Kenneth Edwards , Chandler Egan , Walter Egan , Robert Hunter , Nathaniel Moore , Mason Phelps , Daniel Sawyer , Clement Smoot , Warren Wood	Trans Mississippi Golf Association John Deere Cady , Albert Bond Lambert , John Maxwell , Burt McKinnie , Ralph McKittrick , Francis Newton , Henry Potter , Frederick Semple , Stuart Stickney , William Stickney	United States Golf Association Douglass Cadwallader , Jesse Carleton , Harold Fraser , Arthur Hussey , Orus Jones , Allan Lard , George Oliver , Simeon Price , John Rahm , Harold Weber

Results

Single men

→ Main article : 1904 Summer Olympics / Golf singles (men)

space	country	player
1	CAN	George Lyon
2	United States	Chandler Egan
3	United States	Burt McKinnie
	United States	Francis Newton
5	United States	Daniel Sawyer
	United States	Harry Allen
	United States	Albert Bond Lambert
	United States	Mason Phelps

Date: September 19-24, 1904

75 golfers took part in the individual Olympic tournament, including three from Canada. Everyone had to first in the qualification in stroke play method ( stroke play ) two rounds (36 holes) play; the 32 best made it to the first round. In the three preliminary rounds and in the semi-finals and the finals was after the match play method ( matchplay ) played. In the final, Chandler Egan and the Canadian George Lyon faced each other. In rainy weather, Lyon prevailed 3-2 against Egan, who was the favorite, and there was no elimination for third place.

Team men

→ Main article : 1904 Summer Olympics / Golf team (men)

space	country	player	Blows
1	United States	Western Golf Association Edward Cummins , Kenneth Edwards , Chandler Egan , Walter Egan , Robert Hunter , Nathaniel Moore , Mason Phelps , Daniel Sawyer , Clement Smoot , Warren Wood	1746
2	United States	Trans Mississippi Golf Association John Deere Cady , Albert Bond Lambert , John Maxwell , Burt McKinnie , Ralph McKittrick , Francis Newton , Henry Potter , Frederick Semple , Stuart Stickney , William Stickney	1770
3	United States	United States Golf Association Douglass Cadwallader , Jesse Carleton , Harold Fraser , Arthur Hussey , Orus Jones , Allan Lard , George Oliver , Simeon Price , John Rahm , Harold Weber	1839

Date: September 17, 1904

Originally six teams had registered for the team competition, but only the representatives of the Trans Mississippi Golf Association and the Western Golf Association appeared . Therefore, the individual players who happened to be present formed a third team that competed for the national association United States Golf Association . The teams consisted of ten players each. They each had to complete two rounds or 36 holes in stroke play .

Web links

• Golf at the Olympic Games 1904 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1904 Summer Olympics (PDF, 3.1 MB)