Former local Jock Hutchison won his only Open Championship, in a 36-hole playoff over amateur Roger Wethered.

[7][8][9] The entries included an unusually large number of U.S.-based players following a funding-raising campaign by an American golf magazine.

[13] A team of 11 sailed from New York on the RMS Aquitania on 24 May, together with James Harnett, Harry Hampton deciding at the last minute that he could not travel.

[14] The American team was: Jim Barnes, Emmet French, Clarence Hackney, Walter Hagen, Charles Hoffner, Jock Hutchison, Tom Kerrigan, George McLean, Fred McLeod, Bill Mehlhorn, and Wilfrid Reid.

[18] The American-based entry was augmented by two other professionals, Jack Burgess and James Douglas Edgar, and some amateurs, including Bobby Jones.

During the first round on Thursday morning, Hutchison made a hole-in-one at the 8th and then drove the green at the par-4 9th, his ball settling inches from the hole.

Wethered, a student at Oxford, carded 71 to finish at 296, while Hutchison shot 70 to tie and force a Saturday playoff.

[2][3][26] Although a native of St Andrews, Hutchison had become a U.S. citizen and was credited as being the Open's first American champion.

Bobby Jones, 19, played at St Andrews and the Open for the first time, and was the low amateur after 36 holes.