The following year the champion was another of the Great Triumvirate of late 19th and early 20th century British golfers, John Henry Taylor.
In the 1980s and 1990s Germany's greatest 20th century golfer Bernhard Langer equalled Percy Alliss's record of five wins.
Since the European Tour began in 1972, Langer is the only player to win the same event five times, excluding majors and World Golf Championships.
In 1911 the Baden-Baden golf club organised a 72-hole tournament which they called the "Open Championship of Germany".
The German Golf Association again objected to the use of the title but the prize money attracted most of the leading British professionals.
[40] A nine-hole playoff was arranged in the evening which Taylor won with an incredible score of 28 compared to Ray's 34.