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All American Open

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All American Open
Tournament information
LocationNiles, Illinois
Established1941
Course(s)Tam O'Shanter Country Club
Par72
Tour(s)PGA Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fundUS$25,000
Month playedAugust
Final year1957
Tournament record score
Aggregate269 Byron Nelson (1945)
To par−19 as above
Final champion
Argentina Roberto De Vicenzo
Location map
Tam O'Shanter CC is located in the United States
Tam O'Shanter CC
Tam O'Shanter CC
Location in the United States
Tam O'Shanter CC is located in Illinois
Tam O'Shanter CC
Tam O'Shanter CC
Location in Illinois

The All American Open was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour in the 1940s and 1950s. It was played at the Tam O'Shanter Country Club in Niles, Illinois. It was run by George S. May and was originally known as the Tam O'Shanter National Open. From 1944 to 1946 it offered $10,000 winner's prize. The purses dropped to normal PGA Tour levels when May added the World Championship of Golf to the events played at Tam O'Shanter. May eventually added men's amateur, women's open, and women's amateur "All American" and "World Championship" events, all played at Tam O'Shanter over a two-week period in August. The tournaments were cancelled in 1958 in a dispute between May and the PGA over player entrance fees.

Winners

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Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up Winner's
share ($)
All American Open
1957 Argentina Roberto De Vicenzo 273 −15 4 strokes United States Gene Littler 3,500
1956 United States Dutch Harrison 278 −10 2 strokes United States Earl Stewart 3,400
1955 United States Doug Ford 277 −11 3 strokes United States Leo Biagetti 3,420
1954 United States Jerry Barber 277 −11 1 stroke United States Gene Littler 3,420
1953 United States Lloyd Mangrum (3) 275 −13 3 strokes United States Ted Kroll
United States Sam Snead
3,420
1952 United States Sam Snead 271 −17 8 strokes United States Tommy Bolt 3,420
1951 United States Cary Middlecoff 274 −14 2 strokes United States Fred Hawkins 2,250
1950 South Africa Bobby Locke (2) 282 −6 Playoff United States Lloyd Mangrum 2,500
1949 United States Lloyd Mangrum (2) 276 −12 1 stroke United States Sam Snead 3,333
1948 United States Lloyd Mangrum 277 −11 2 strokes South Africa Bobby Locke 5,000
1947 South Africa Bobby Locke 276 −12 Playoff United States Ed Oliver 7,000
1946 United States Herman Barron 280 −8 1 stroke United States Ellsworth Vines 10,500
1945 United States Byron Nelson (4) 269 −19 11 strokes United States Ben Hogan
United States Gene Sarazen
10,200
1944 United States Byron Nelson (3) 280 −8 5 strokes United States Ed Dudley 10,100
1943 United States Jug McSpaden 282 −6 Playoff United States Buck White 2,000
Tam O'Shanter National Open
1942 United States Byron Nelson (2) 280 −8 Playoff United States Clayton Heafner 2,500
1941 United States Byron Nelson 278 −10 1 stroke United States Leonard Dodson
United States Ben Hogan
2,000

See also

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References

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Barkow, Al (November 1989). The History of the PGA TOUR. Doubleday. pp. 86–92. ISBN 0-385-26145-4.