- All American Open
The All American Open was a
golf tournament on thePGA Tour in the 1940s and 1950s. It was played at the Tam O'Shanter Country Club inNiles, Illinois . It was run by George S. May and was also known as the Tam O'Shanter Open. From 1944 to 1946 it offered an unheard of $10,000 winner's prize. The purses dropped to normal PGA Tour levels when May added theWorld 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
*1957
Roberto DeVicenzo
*1956E.J. "Dutch" Harrison
*1955 Doug Ford
*1954Jerry Barber
*1953Lloyd Mangrum
*1952Sam Snead
*1951Cary Middlecoff
*1950Bobby Locke
*1949Lloyd Mangrum
*1948Lloyd Mangrum
*1947Bobby Locke
*1946Herman Barron
*1945Byron Nelson
*1944Byron Nelson
*1943Harold "Jug" McSpaden
*1942Byron Nelson
*1941Byron Nelson References
cite book
last = Barkow
first = Al
title = The History of the PGA TOUR
publisher = Doubleday
origyear = 1989
origmonth = Nov
isbn = 0-385-26145-4
pages = pp. 86-92
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