All American Open
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 $10,000 winner's prize. The purses dropped to normal PGA Tour levels when May added the World Championship of Golf to the events played at Tam O'Shanter. May eventually added men's amateur, women's open, and women's amateur "All American" and "World Championship" events, all played at Tam O'Shanter over a two-week period in August. The tournaments were cancelled in 1958 in a dispute between May and the PGA over player entrance fees.
Winners
| Year | Player | Country | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up | Winner's share ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All American Open | |||||||
| 1957 | Roberto DeVicenzo |  Argentina |
273 | −15 | 4 strokes |  Gene Littler |
3,500 |
| 1956 | Dutch Harrison |  United States |
278 | −10 | 2 strokes | Earl Stewart |
3,400 |
| 1955 | Doug Ford | United States |
277 | −11 | 3 strokes | Leo Biagetti |
3,420 |
| 1954 | Jerry Barber | United States |
277 | −11 | 1 stroke | Gene Littler |
3,420 |
| 1953 | Lloyd Mangrum | United States |
275 | −13 | 3 strokes | Ted Kroll Sam Snead |
3,420 |
| 1952 | Sam Snead | United States |
271 | −17 | 8 strokes | Tommy Bolt |
3,420 |
| 1951 | Cary Middlecoff | United States |
274 | −14 | 2 strokes | Fred Hawkins |
2,250 |
| 1950 | Bobby Locke |  South Africa |
282 | −6 | Playoff | Lloyd Mangrum |
2,500 |
| 1949 | Lloyd Mangrum | United States |
276 | −12 | 1 stroke | Sam Snead |
3,333 |
| 1948 | Lloyd Mangrum | United States |
277 | −11 | 2 strokes | Bobby Locke |
5,000 |
| 1947 | Bobby Locke | South Africa |
276 | −12 | Playoff | Porky Oliver |
7,000 |
| 1946 | Herman Barron | United States |
280 | −8 | 1 stroke | Ellsworth Vines |
10,500 |
| 1945 | Byron Nelson | United States |
269 | −19 | 11 strokes | Ben Hogan Gene Sarazen |
10,200 |
| 1944 | Byron Nelson | United States |
280 | −8 | 5 strokes | Ed Dudley |
10,100 |
| 1943 | Jug McSpaden | United States |
282 | −6 | Playoff | Buck White |
2,000 |
| Tam O'Shanter National Open | |||||||
| 1942 | Byron Nelson | United States |
280 | −8 | Playoff | Clayton Heafner |
2,500 |
| 1941 | Byron Nelson | United States |
278 | −10 | 1 stroke | Leonard Dodson Ben Hogan |
2,000 |
See also
References
Barkow, Al (November 1989). The History of the PGA TOUR. Doubleday. pp. 86–92. ISBN 0-385-26145-4.