1907 U.S. Open Golf Tournament Winner and Scores
Winner: Alex Ross, 302
Where it was played: Philadelphia Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania
Tournament dates: June 20-21, 1907
Leader after first round: David Brown, 75
Leader after second round: Alex Ross, 150
Leader after third round: Jack Hobens, 224
Notable Notes: Alex Ross, brother of golf design legend Donald Ross, won by two strokes over Gilbert Nicholls. Third-round leader Jack Hobens — who had the first hole-in-one in tournament history in the first round — fell seven shots off the winning score after shooting 85 in Round 4.
In the final round, Alex Campbell's golf ball sprang a leak. Campbell was playing a newfangled "pneumatic" golf ball, one filled with highly compressed air. But on the fourth hole, when he had moved into the lead, his ball partially deflated. Under the rules of the time, he could only switch to a new ball between holes, not during the play of one. So Campbell had to finish the fourth hole with that damaged ball. He made a triple bogey, and three strokes is the margin by which he finished behind Ross.
Final Scores
| Alex Ross | 76-74-76-76—302 |
| Gilbert Nicholls | 80-73-72-79—304 |
| Alex Campbell | 78-74-78-75—305 |
| Jack Hobens | 76-75-73-85—309 |
| George Low | 78-76-79-77—310 |
| Fred McLeod | 79-77-79-75—310 |
| Peter Robertson | 81-77-78-74—310 |
| David Brown | 75-80-78-78—311 |
| Bernard Nicholls | 76-76-81-78—311 |
| Donald Ross | 78-80-76-78—312 |
| Laurie Auchterlonie | 77-77-83-76—313 |
| Fred Brand | 78-80-73-82—313 |
| David Robertson | 80-78-75-81—314 |
| Tom McNamara | 82-79-78-76—315 |
| Willie Anderson | 81-77-81-77—316 |
| Mike Brady | 76-77-84-80—317 |
| David Hunter | 77-75-85-80—317 |
| Martin O'Loughlin | 81-81-77-78—317 |
| Jack Campbell | 78-79-82-80—319 |
| George Bouse | 78-78-86-78—320 |
| Stewart Gardner | 81-79-78-83—321 |
| James Campbell | 76-85-81-80—322 |
| Isaac Mackie | 82-83-79-78—322 |
| Walter Clark | 88-81-79-84—332 |
| Jack Jolly | 78-86-81-78—323 |
| David Ogilvie | 82-81-81-80—324 |
| Horace Rawlins | 82-76-83-83—324 |
| William Robinson | 82-84-80-78—324 |
| a-Jerome Travers | 81-84-80-79—324 |
| William Gaudin | 80-86-82-77—325 |
| William Ogilvie | 80-83-82-80—325 |
| James Thomson | 80-82-84-81—327 |
| George Thomson | 83-86-82-76—327 |
| a-George Smith | 78-82-83-85—328 |
| David Honeyman | 82-79-85-83—329 |
| Robert Peebles | 85-78-82-85—330 |
| William C. Sherwood | 82-84-85-79—330 |
| Herbert Strong | 82-85-84-80—331 |
| Alex Cunningham | 82-82-83-85—332 |
| David Foulis | 82-82-83-85—332 |
| Walter Fovargue | 80-84-86-82—332 |
| a-Simon Carr | 82-87-80-85—334 |
| J.S. Pearson | 79-83-85-87—334 |
| William Byrne | 85-84-81-85—335 |
| a-William West | 87-79-90-79—335 |
| William Hoare | 86-80-86-85—337 |
| a-H.M. Forrest | 82-82-87-87—338 |
| George Pearson | 81-86-90-84—341 |
| John Burke | 80-86-89-89—344 |
| a-Warren Cochran | 82-80-93-91—346 |
