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.

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

Winners

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