Horace Rawlins won the inaugural event, two strokes ahead of runner-up Willie Dunn.

[3] Eleven players began the tournament (three withdrew before play began), completing four loops around Newport's nine holes, which measured 2,755 yards (2,519 m).

Rawlins shot 41 on each of the last two loops of the course to post an 82 and 173 total, two ahead of Dunn and three ahead of Foulis and Canadian Andrew Smith, the lone amateur in the field.

Rawlins won a winner's share of $150 and a gold medal.

The golf championships at Newport in 1895 were originally scheduled for September, but were postponed due to the America's Cup yacht races,[5] won by Defender.