All American Open
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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 Chicago, Illinois. It was run by George S. May and was also known as the Tam O'Shanter Open. From 1944 to 1946 it offered an unheard of $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.
- 1941 Byron Nelson
- 1942 Byron Nelson
- 1943 Harold "Jug" McSpaden
- 1944 Byron Nelson
- 1945 Byron Nelson
- 1946 Herman Barron
- 1947 Bobby Locke
- 1948 Lloyd Mangrum
- 1949 Lloyd Mangrum
- 1950 Bobby Locke
- 1951 Cary Middlecoff
- 1952 Sam Snead
- 1953 Lloyd Mangrum
- 1954 Jerry Barber
- 1955 Doug Ford
- 1956 E.J. "Dutch" Harrison
- 1957 Roberto DeVicenzo
Barkow, Al (1989). The History of the PGA TOUR. Doubleday, pp. 86-92. ISBN 0385261454.