(4 october 1895)
(9-hole course)
(newport country club)
(newport rhode island)
“horace rawlins”
(21-year-old englishman)
It was a 36-hole competition and was played in a single day. Ten professionals and one amateur entered.
The winner was a 21-year-old Englishman named Horace Rawlins, who had arrived in the U.S. in January that year to take up a position at the host club.
(he received $150 cash out of a prize fund of $335, plus a $50 gold medal; his club received the Open Championship Cup trophy, which was presented by the USGA)