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That's Fred McLeod and Harry Vardon.

Wystan, Thanks for the full names of these two gentlemen. We will add those details when we update.

Vardon is responsible for popularizing the Vardon Grip aka the Overlapping Grip which has become the most used grip amongst golfers the world over. It was supposedly invented by a Scottish chap named Johnny Laidlay see here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Vardon#Vardon_Grip Wonderful image, thx for sharing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Vardon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_McLeod

1913 US Open: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913_U.S._Open

Played at The Country Club in Brookline: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Country_Club

Can't imagine any of those folks yelling "Get in the hole!", can you?

jimflanny and Richard Arthur Norton, Thanks for the information on this photograph. If you search for Brookline in our Flickr set, you will see quite a few images from the 1913 open championship of the U.S. Golf Association! We will update this record with the details.

1913 U.S. Open: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913_U.S._Open

More: "The 1913 U.S. Open was held at The Country Club. The heavy favorites were English legends Harry Vardon (1900 U.S. Open winner; four-time British Open winner) and Ted Ray (reigning British Open champion). After 72 holes, the pair found themselves tied with 20-year-old amateur Francis Ouimet—who had grown up across the street from the course and was a former caddie at the club—forcing an 18-hole playoff the next day. In a shocking upset, Ouimet soundly defeated the two professional golfers in front of a large gallery, and the resulting newspaper stories captured the imagination of the American public. The number of golfers in the country at least tripled in the subsequent ten years, with a corresponding increase in golf courses (including many public courses, opening up the game to a larger segment of the population). " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Country_Club