{{Short description|none}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox Olympic event | event = Men's individual golf | games = 1904 Summer | image = George Lyon 1904.jpg | caption = George Lyon during the golf tournament | venue = Glen Echo Country Club | dates = September 19–24, 1904 | competitors = 75 | nations = 2 | longnames = yes | gold = George Lyon | goldNOC = CAN | silver = Chandler Egan | silverNOC = USA | bronze = Burt McKinnie | bronzeNOC = USA | bronze2 = Francis Newton | bronzeNOC2 = USA | prev = 1900 | next = 2016 }} {{Golf at the Olympics|1904}} The men's individual was an event held as part of the golf programme at the 1904 Summer Olympics. It was the second time the event was held at the Olympics, though it took a much different format than the 1900 golf tournament. 75 golfers from two nations competed. The competition was held approximately 5.75 km north of the Olympic Stadium at Glen Echo Country Club from September 19 to 24, 1904.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/40002 |title=Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics: Individual, Men |work=Olympedia |access-date=July 5, 2020}}</ref> The event was won by George Lyon of Canada, one of three golfers not from the host United States. Lyon defeated American Chandler Egan in the final, giving Egan the silver medal. Americans Burt McKinnie and Francis Newton were the defeated semifinalists, each receiving bronze.
==Background== The first Olympic golf tournaments were held at the 1900 Games, with events for both men and women. One of the men's players was Albert Bond Lambert, who finished eighth in the (Olympic) men's tournament and first in the (non-Olympic) handicap tournament. Lambert and his father-in-law George McGrew, prominent businessmen in the St. Louis area, determined to bring golf to the 1904 Games that would be held in St. Louis. They founded the Glen Echo Country Club and pressed for the inclusion of golf on the programme with a tournament to be held at Glen Echo.<ref name=1900Olympedia>{{cite web |url=http://www.olympedia.org/results/40000 |title=Individual, Men (1900) |work=Olympedia |accessdate=March 30, 2021}}</ref> The result was the second Olympic golf tournament, though the women's individual event was dropped and a men's team event added.
Golf was later planned to be on the programme for the 1908 Games in London, but a dispute among the British golfers led to them all boycotting. With only the Canadian defending champion Lyon scheduled to compete (and him unwilling to accept a gold medal by walkover), the 1908 golf event was cancelled. Golf would not be held again at the Olympics until 2016.
Canada made its debut in the event. The United States made its second appearance, the only nation to have golfers at both of the first two men's individual golf tournaments.
==Competition format== The format for the 1904 men's individual tournament was a grueling one. In contrast to the 1900 Games, which used a 36-hole stroke play tournament as the entire competition, the 1904 tournament started with a 36-hole stroke play ''qualifying round''. This was followed by the top 32 qualifiers playing a 5-round match play tournament with each round consisting of 36 holes. Each round was played on consecutive days, resulting in the finalists playing six straight days of 36 holes of golf. No bronze medal match was played; both semifinal losers received bronze medals.<ref name=Olympedia>{{cite web |url=http://www.olympedia.org/results/40002 |title=Individual, Men (1904) |work=Olympedia |accessdate=March 30, 2021}}</ref>
==Schedule==
{| class="wikitable" ! Date ! Time ! Round |- | Monday, September 19, 1904 || || '''Qualifying''' |- | Tuesday, September 20, 1904 || || '''Round of 32''' |- | Wednesday, September 21, 1904 || || '''Round of 16''' |- | Thursday, September 22, 1904 || || '''Quarterfinals''' |- | Friday, September 23, 1904 || || '''Semifinals''' |- style=background:lemonchiffon | Saturday, September 24, 1904 || || '''Final''' |}
==Results==
===Qualifying round===
Golfers played two 18-hole rounds in qualifying play on September 19. The top 32 golfers advanced to match play.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/09/20/117949000.pdf |title=Golfers Tie In Medal Round |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 20, 1904 |access-date=September 11, 2013}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! Rank !! Player !! Nation || Score !! Notes |- |rowspan=2|1||align=left| Ralph McKittrick ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 163 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| Stuart Stickney ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 163 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |3||align=left| Francis Newton ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 164 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |rowspan=2|4||align=left| Walter Egan ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 165 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| William Stickney ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 165 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |rowspan=2|6||align=left| Chandler Egan ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 166 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| Mason Phelps ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 166 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |8||align=left| Albert Bond Lambert ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 168 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |rowspan=2|9||align=left| George Lyon ||align=left| {{flagIOC|CAN|1904 Summer}} || 169 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| Daniel Sawyer ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 169 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |rowspan=3|11||align=left| Douglass Cadwallader ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 170 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| Burt McKinnie ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 170 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| Warren Wood ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 170 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |14||align=left| Robert Hunter ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 171 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |15||align=left| Henry Potter ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 173 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |rowspan=3|16||align=left| Jesse Carleton ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 174 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| Simpson Foulis ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 174 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| Harold Weber ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 174 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |rowspan=3|19||align=left| Orus Jones ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 177 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| Nathaniel Moore ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 177 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| Simeon Price ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 177 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |rowspan=3|22||align=left| Harry Allen ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 178 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| Arthur Havemeyer ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 178 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| Clement Smoot ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 178 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |25||align=left| Edward Cummins ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 179 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |26||align=left| Frederick Semple ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 180 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |rowspan=2|27||align=left| John Cady ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 182 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| Abner Vickery||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 182 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |rowspan=4|29||align=left| Harold Fraser ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 183 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| Raymond Havemeyer ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 183 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| Allan Lard ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 183 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |align=left| William Smith ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 183 || {{abbr|Q|Qualified for match play}} |- |rowspan=2|33||align=left| Bart Adams ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 184 || |- |align=left| William Burton ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 184 || |- |rowspan=2|35||align=left| Tim Boyd ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 185 || |- |align=left| Charles Scudder ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 185 || |- |rowspan=2|37||align=left| Edwin Hunter ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 187 || |- |align=left| Harold Simpkins ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 187 || |- |39||align=left| John Rahm ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 188 || |- |rowspan=2|40||align=left| Arthur Hussey ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 191 || |- |align=left| Herbert Sumney ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 191 || |- |rowspan=3|42||align=left| Campbell Brown ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 192 || |- |align=left| Henry Case ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 192 || |- |align=left| Edgar Davis ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 192 || |- |rowspan=3|45||align=left| Robert Thach ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 195 || |- |align=left| George Powell ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 195 || |- |align=left| Charles Willard ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 195 || |- |rowspan=2|48||align=left| Clarkson Potter ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 196 || |- |align=left| George Thomas ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 196 || |- |50||align=left| George Oliver ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 197 || |- |51||align=left| W. A. Hersey ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 198 || |- |rowspan=2|52||align=left| John Brandt ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 199 || |- |align=left| Bernard Edmunds ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 199 || |- |54||align=left| Frederick Newbery ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 201 || |- |rowspan=2|55||align=left| Alfred Annan ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 202 || |- |align=left| Leon Hazelton ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 202 || |- |57||align=left| Murray Carleton ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 203 || |- |58||align=left| Louis Allis ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 205 || |- |59||align=left| John Watson ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 206 || |- |rowspan=2|60||align=left| Jarvis Hunt ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 207 || |- |align=left| Alexander Mackintosh ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 207 || |- |rowspan=2|62||align=left| Wallace Shaw ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 209 || |- |align=left| William Withers ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 209 || |- |64||align=left| Joseph Howard ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 210 || |- |65||align=left| Bertie Austin ||align=left| {{flagIOC|CAN|1904 Summer}} || 211 || |- |rowspan=2|66||align=left| James Stack ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 213 || |- |align=left| Meade Yates ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 213 || |- |rowspan=2|68||align=left| William Groseclose ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 214 || |- |align=left| Simon Harbaugh ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 214 || |- |70||align=left| Edward Lansing ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 219 || |- |71||align=left| Edward Gould ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 222 || |- |72||align=left| Clarence Angier ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 226 || |- |73||align=left| Albert Austin ||align=left| {{flagIOC|CAN|1904 Summer}} || 230 || |- |74||align=left| Lee Jones ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || 240 || |- |data-sort-value=75| — ||align=left| Charles B. Cory ||align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1904 Summer}} || {{abbr|DNF|Did not finish}} || |}
===Match play=== {{32TeamBracket|compact=yes|seeds=no|team-width=auto|score-width=auto | RD1=Round of 32 | RD2=Round of 16 | RD3=Quarterfinals | RD4=Semifinals | RD5=Final | RD1-team01={{flagIOCathlete|'''Burt McKinnie'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score01= 37h | RD1-team02={{flagIOCathlete|Harold Weber|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score02= – | RD1-team03={{flagIOCathlete|'''Robert Hunter'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score03= 8&7 | RD1-team04={{flagIOCathlete|Raymond Havemeyer|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score04= – | RD1-team05={{flagIOCathlete|'''Simpson Foulis'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score05= 5&3 | RD1-team06={{flagIOCathlete|Henry Potter|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score06= – | RD1-team07={{flagIOCathlete|'''Daniel Sawyer'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score07= 8&7 | RD1-team08={{flagIOCathlete|Jesse Carleton|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score08= – | RD1-team09={{flagIOCathlete|'''William Stickney'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score09= 2&1 | RD1-team10={{flagIOCathlete|Clement Smoot|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score10= – | RD1-team11={{flagIOCathlete|'''Harry Allen'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score11= 6&4 | RD1-team12={{flagIOCathlete|Warren Wood|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score12= – | RD1-team13={{flagIOCathlete|'''Nathaniel Moore'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score13= 12&10 | RD1-team14={{flagIOCathlete|Orus Jones|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score14= – | RD1-team15={{flagIOCathlete|'''Chandler Egan'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score15= 8&6 | RD1-team16={{flagIOCathlete|Harold Fraser|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score16= – | RD1-team17={{flagIOCathlete|'''Stuart Stickney'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score17= 7&6 | RD1-team18={{flagIOCathlete|William Smith|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score18= – | RD1-team19={{flagIOCathlete|'''George Lyon'''|CAN|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score19= 5&4 | RD1-team20={{flagIOCathlete|John Cady|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score20= – | RD1-team21={{flagIOCathlete|'''Albert Bond Lambert'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score21= 7&6 | RD1-team22={{flagIOCathlete|Walter Egan|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score22= – | RD1-team23={{flagIOCathlete|'''Ralph McKittrick'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score23= 2&1 | RD1-team24={{flagIOCathlete|Douglass Cadwallader|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score24= – | RD1-team25={{flagIOCathlete|'''Mason Phelps'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score25= 6&4 | RD1-team26={{flagIOCathlete|Frederick Semple|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score26= – | RD1-team27={{flagIOCathlete|'''Arthur Havemeyer'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score27= 8&7 | RD1-team28={{flagIOCathlete|Simeon Price|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score28= – | RD1-team29={{flagIOCathlete|'''Allan Lard'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score29= 10&9 | RD1-team30={{flagIOCathlete|Abner Vickery|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score30= – | RD1-team31={{flagIOCathlete|'''Francis Newton'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score31= 8&7 | RD1-team32={{flagIOCathlete|Edward Cummins|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD1-score32= – | RD2-team01={{flagIOCathlete|'''McKinnie'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score01= 7&6 | RD2-team02={{flagIOCathlete|Hunter|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score02= – | RD2-team03={{flagIOCathlete|Foulis|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score03= – | RD2-team04={{flagIOCathlete|'''Sawyer'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score04= 2&1 | RD2-team05={{flagIOCathlete|Stickney|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score05= – | RD2-team06={{flagIOCathlete|'''Allen'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score06= 4&3 | RD2-team07={{flagIOCathlete|Moore|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score07= – | RD2-team08={{flagIOCathlete|'''C. Egan'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score08= 7&6 | RD2-team09={{flagIOCathlete|Stickney|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score09= – | RD2-team10={{flagIOCathlete|'''Lyon'''|CAN|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score10= 11&9 | RD2-team11={{flagIOCathlete|'''Lambert'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score11= 1 up | RD2-team12={{flagIOCathlete|McKittrick|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score12= – | RD2-team13={{flagIOCathlete|'''Phelps'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score13= 12&10 | RD2-team14={{flagIOCathlete|A. Havemeyer|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score14= – | RD2-team15={{flagIOCathlete|Lard|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score15= – | RD2-team16={{flagIOCathlete|'''Newton'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD2-score16= 2&1 | RD3-team01={{flagIOCathlete|'''McKinnie'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD3-score01= 4&3 | RD3-team02={{flagIOCathlete|Sawyer|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD3-score02= – | RD3-team03={{flagIOCathlete|Allen|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD3-score03= – | RD3-team04={{flagIOCathlete|'''C. Egan'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD3-score04= 4&3 | RD3-team05={{flagIOCathlete|'''Lyon'''|CAN|1904 Summer}} | RD3-score05= 5&4 | RD3-team06={{flagIOCathlete|Lambert|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD3-score06= – | RD3-team07={{flagIOCathlete|Phelps|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD3-score07= – | RD3-team08={{flagIOCathlete|'''Newton'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD3-score08= 2&1 | RD4-team01={{flagIOCathlete|McKinnie|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD4-score01= – | RD4-team02={{flagIOCathlete|'''C. Egan'''|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD4-score02= 4&3 | RD4-team03={{flagIOCathlete|'''Lyon'''|CAN|1904 Summer}} | RD4-score03= 1 up | RD4-team04={{flagIOCathlete|Newton|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD4-score04= – | RD5-team01={{flagIOCathlete|C. Egan|USA|1904 Summer}} | RD5-score01= – | RD5-team02={{flagIOCathlete|'''Lyon'''|CAN|1904 Summer}} | RD5-score02= 3&2 }}
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