Fred Herd (26 November 1873 – 14 March 1954) was a Scottish professional golfer from St Andrews.

In 1898, he won the fourth U.S. Open at Myopia Hunt Club, in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.

[3] He emigrated to the United States in 1897, became a naturalized citizen,[4] and that same year was posted as the professional at the Washington Park course in Chicago.

He and his brother James were boarding at the Chicago home of Ellen McNulty and her family in 1900.

[5][6] He won a $150 prize for winning the 1898 U.S. Open—a large sum of money at the time—but such was his reputation as a drinker that he was not allowed to take the U.S. Open trophy away until he had paid a deposit, as the USGA was worried that he might pawn it to buy alcohol.