Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Golf at the Games of the III Olympiad | |
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Venue | Glen Echo Country Club |
Dates | September 17–24, 1904 |
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Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics |
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At the 1904 Summer Olympics, two golf events were contested – men's individual and team tournaments. The competitions were held from September 17, 1904 to September 24, 1904. It was the second and final appearance of the sport at the Olympics until the 2016 Summer Olympics. The men's individual event was switched to a match play tournament rather than the stroke play used four years earlier.[1]
Format
There were two golf events at the 1904 Olympic Games. The first was a team championship open to golf associations, and contested over 36 holes of stroke play by teams of ten amateur golfers with all scores counting towards the team total. It was followed by an individual event contested as a match play knockout by the leading 32 players following a 36-hole stroke play qualifying round, with each match played over 36 holes.[2]
Medal summary
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual details | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
Team details | ![]() Western Golf Association Edward Cummins | ![]() Trans-Mississippi Golf Association John Cady | ![]() United States Golf Association[a] Douglass Cadwallader |
Participating nations
A total of 77 golfers from 2 nations competed at the St. Louis Games:
Canada (3)
United States (74)
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
2 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Totals (2 entries) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
Notes
- ^ The IOC medalist database lists an American team as winning the bronze medal. Like all other teams in the database, the team is not named beyond "United States of America III" (the gold and silver medal teams are I and II, respectively). Unlike the other two teams, however, there are no participants listed in the bronze-medal team. The list of golfers on the USGA team, and the names of the golf associations sponsoring all three teams, can be found in other sources.
References
Sources
- International Olympic Committee results database
- George Seymour Lyon - Olympic Individual gold medal winner 1904
- Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Retrieved December 17, 2006.