Toledo, OH
Inverness Club
At the 1920 U.S. Open, Inverness welcomed competitors into its clubhouse. Its history describes this as a break with the exclusion of tournament professionals from private clubhouses.1
- Location
- Toledo, OH
- Course
- 18 holes · par 71
- Club website
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A clock for an open clubhouse
The players pooled money to give the members a cathedral clock in gratitude. Still displayed in the clubhouse lobby, the clock turns a change in hospitality into a physical object that the Club can point to more than a century later.1
The course
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Championships
Results and dates 12 editions
U.S. Open
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Ted Ray
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Billy Burke
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Dick Mayer
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Hale Irwin
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NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
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NCAA Men's Golf Championship
Louis Lick
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Matt Hill
PGA Championship
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Bob Tway
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Paul Azinger
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U.S. Senior Open
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Bruce Lietzke
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Olin Browne
U.S. Amateur
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Craig Stadler
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U.S. Junior Amateur
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Preston Summerhays
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Sources and editorial notes10 references
Sources for this story
- 1920 U.S. Open Championship Inverness Club
Vardon/Ray finish and clubhouse clock.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources9 references
- Club mark source
- Inverness Club official history
- USGA: U.S. Junior Amateur official final result Printed/PDF page 10, 2019 result row. Completed championship and final result. Preston Summerhays defeated Bo Jin, 2 and 1. Actual date range from the retrospective result table.
- PGA Tour: U.S. Senior Open verified results PGA Tour 2015 Champions media guide, PDF page 213 / printed page 212, year row establishes a completed championship and named winner. No event dates are inferred from advertised schedules. Host-club evidence: www.usga.org.
- USGA: Host States and Clubs, 1895 to Present (as of October 13, 2025) Gold club identity reviewed against the source host entry Inverness Club, Toledo (8), 2003, 2011 Senior Open. Exact physical course and round scope remain unresolved; no single-course inference is made.
- NCAA: 2025 Division I Mens Golf Championships Records Book Official NCAA team and individual championship records, PDF pages5-9 and38. Separate team/individual awards; NCAA chronology starts1939, not the pre1939 intercollegiate family. Dates remain unasserted except where printed in Houston PDF page14 for1982.
- 2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 75th playing, champion, site, and its year-page date span. The recorded venue and champion preserve the official PGA Championship History entry’s published text.
- 2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 1979 Championship, champion, explicit date span, and site in Championship Results: 1895 to 2025. The recorded champion and site preserve the higher-resolution register text. The current official U.S. Open Champions table independently confirms the year, champion, and site.
- USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 10, 1973 result row. Craig Stadler d. David Strawn, 6 and 5. Match margins and extra-hole lengths are not stroke totals. Actual dates from the retrospective result table.