1935
Champion: Sam Parks Jr.
Avg. score for the field: 80.55
Rounds under par for field: 3
Purse: $5,000
Entries: 1,125
HISTORY LESSON
Among the many spectators was Edward Stimpson, the 1935 Massachusetts Amateur champion. After watching Gene Sarazen roll a putt off a green, Stimpson was convinced the greens were unreasonably fast — but wondered how he could prove it. After the event, he built a wooden device that measured the speed of the greens based on how far a ball would roll when released from a channel. It wasn't until 1978 that the apparatus was christened the Stimpmeter.
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