# Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's individual

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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. 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. 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.

## Schedule

| Date | 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 |
| 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.
| Rank | Player | Nation | Score | Notes |
| 1 | Ralph McKittrick | United States | 163 | Q |
| 1 | Stuart Stickney | United States | 163 | Q |
| 3 | Francis Newton | United States | 164 | Q |
| 4 | Walter Egan | United States | 165 | Q |
| 4 | William Stickney | United States | 165 | Q |
| 6 | Chandler Egan | United States | 166 | Q |
| 6 | Mason Phelps | United States | 166 | Q |
| 8 | Albert Bond Lambert | United States | 168 | Q |
| 9 | George Lyon | Canada | 169 | Q |
| 9 | Daniel Sawyer | United States | 169 | Q |
| 11 | Douglass Cadwallader | United States | 170 | Q |
| 11 | Burt McKinnie | United States | 170 | Q |
| 11 | Warren Wood | United States | 170 | Q |
| 14 | Robert Hunter | United States | 171 | Q |
| 15 | Henry Potter | United States | 173 | Q |
| 16 | Jesse Carleton | United States | 174 | Q |
| 16 | Simpson Foulis | United States | 174 | Q |
| 16 | Harold Weber | United States | 174 | Q |
| 19 | Orus Jones | United States | 177 | Q |
| 19 | Nathaniel Moore | United States | 177 | Q |
| 19 | Simeon Price | United States | 177 | Q |
| 22 | Harry Allen | United States | 178 | Q |
| 22 | Arthur Havemeyer | United States | 178 | Q |
| 22 | Clement Smoot | United States | 178 | Q |
| 25 | Edward Cummins | United States | 179 | Q |
| 26 | Frederick Semple | United States | 180 | Q |
| 27 | John Cady | United States | 182 | Q |
| 27 | Abner Vickery | United States | 182 | Q |
| 29 | Harold Fraser | United States | 183 | Q |
| 29 | Raymond Havemeyer | United States | 183 | Q |
| 29 | Allan Lard | United States | 183 | Q |
| 29 | William Smith | United States | 183 | Q |
| 33 | Bart Adams | United States | 184 | |
| 33 | William Burton | United States | 184 | |
| 35 | Tim Boyd | United States | 185 | |
| 35 | Charles Scudder | United States | 185 | |
| 37 | Edwin Hunter | United States | 187 | |
| 37 | Harold Simpkins | United States | 187 | |
| 39 | John Rahm | United States | 188 | |
| 40 | Arthur Hussey | United States | 191 | |
| 40 | Herbert Sumney | United States | 191 | |
| 42 | Campbell Brown | United States | 192 | |
| 42 | Henry Case | United States | 192 | |
| 42 | Edgar Davis | United States | 192 | |
| 45 | Robert Thach | United States | 195 | |
| 45 | George Powell | United States | 195 | |
| 45 | Charles Willard | United States | 195 | |
| 48 | Clarkson Potter | United States | 196 | |
| 48 | George Thomas | United States | 196 | |
| 50 | George Oliver | United States | 197 | |
| 51 | W. A. Hersey | United States | 198 | |
| 52 | John Brandt | United States | 199 | |
| 52 | Bernard Edmunds | United States | 199 | |
| 54 | Frederick Newbery | United States | 201 | |
| 55 | Alfred Annan | United States | 202 | |
| 55 | Leon Hazelton | United States | 202 | |
| 57 | Murray Carleton | United States | 203 | |
| 58 | Louis Allis | United States | 205 | |
| 59 | John Watson | United States | 206 | |
| 60 | Jarvis Hunt | United States | 207 | |
| 60 | Alexander Mackintosh | United States | 207 | |
| 62 | Wallace Shaw | United States | 209 | |
| 62 | William Withers | United States | 209 | |
| 64 | Joseph Howard | United States | 210 | |
| 65 | Bertie Austin | Canada | 211 | |
| 66 | James Stack | United States | 213 | |
| 66 | Meade Yates | United States | 213 | |
| 68 | William Groseclose | United States | 214 | |
| 68 | Simon Harbaugh | United States | 214 | |
| 70 | Edward Lansing | United States | 219 | |
| 71 | Edward Gould | United States | 222 | |
| 72 | Clarence Angier | United States | 226 | |
| 73 | Albert Austin | Canada | 230 | |
| 74 | Lee Jones | United States | 240 | |
| — | Charles B. Cory | United States | DNF | |

### Match play

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Burt McKinnie (USA) | 37h | | | | | | | | |
| Harold Weber (USA) | – | McKinnie (USA) | 7&6 | | | | | | |
| Robert Hunter (USA) | 8&7 | Hunter (USA) | – | | | | | | |
| Raymond Havemeyer (USA) | – | | | McKinnie (USA) | 4&3 | | | | |
| Simpson Foulis (USA) | 5&3 | | | Sawyer (USA) | – | | | | |
| Henry Potter (USA) | – | Foulis (USA) | – | | | | | | |
| Daniel Sawyer (USA) | 8&7 | Sawyer (USA) | 2&1 | | | | | | |
| Jesse Carleton (USA) | – | | | | | McKinnie (USA) | – | | |
| William Stickney (USA) | 2&1 | | | | | C. Egan (USA) | 4&3 | | |
| Clement Smoot (USA) | – | Stickney (USA) | – | | | | | | |
| Harry Allen (USA) | 6&4 | Allen (USA) | 4&3 | | | | | | |
| Warren Wood (USA) | – | | | Allen (USA) | – | | | | |
| Nathaniel Moore (USA) | 12&10 | | | C. Egan (USA) | 4&3 | | | | |
| Orus Jones (USA) | – | Moore (USA) | – | | | | | | |
| Chandler Egan (USA) | 8&6 | C. Egan (USA) | 7&6 | | | | | | |
| Harold Fraser (USA) | – | | | | | | | C. Egan (USA) | – |
| Stuart Stickney (USA) | 7&6 | | | | | | | Lyon (CAN) | 3&2 |
| William Smith (USA) | – | Stickney (USA) | – | | | | | | |
| George Lyon (CAN) | 5&4 | Lyon (CAN) | 11&9 | | | | | | |
| John Cady (USA) | – | | | Lyon (CAN) | 5&4 | | | | |
| Albert Bond Lambert (USA) | 7&6 | | | Lambert (USA) | – | | | | |
| Walter Egan (USA) | – | Lambert (USA) | 1 up | | | | | | |
| Ralph McKittrick (USA) | 2&1 | McKittrick (USA) | – | | | | | | |
| Douglass Cadwallader (USA) | – | | | | | Lyon (CAN) | 1 up | | |
| Mason Phelps (USA) | 6&4 | | | | | Newton (USA) | – | | |
| Frederick Semple (USA) | – | Phelps (USA) | 12&10 | | | | | | |
| Arthur Havemeyer (USA) | 8&7 | A. Havemeyer (USA) | – | | | | | | |
| Simeon Price (USA) | – | | | Phelps (USA) | – | | | | |
| Allan Lard (USA) | 10&9 | | | Newton (USA) | 2&1 | | | | |
| Abner Vickery (USA) | – | Lard (USA) | – | | | | | | |
| Francis Newton (USA) | 8&7 | Newton (USA) | 2&1 | | | | | | |
| Edward Cummins (USA) | – | | | | | | | | |