Tom Vardon 4th, 1907 at Hoylake – T3. Vardon tied for ninth place in the 1916 U.S. Open held June 29–30 at Minikahda Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He continued playing professional golf for four decades and became the oldest competitor at the 1930 U.S. Open at Interlachen Country Club. Vardon was born at Grouville, Jersey, Channel Islands, to Philip George Vardon (1829–1914) and Elizabeth Augustine Bouchard (1837–1920). In 1894 he married Minnie Stevenson. They had two children, Stella F. Vardon and Leonard Harry Vardon. Vardon was the head professional at a number of golf clubs including Ilkley Golf Club from 1893 to
Blundell v Vardon likely to result in a distortion of the voters' real intentions. While the "Commonwealth Electoral Act", still provides for a partial failure of an election, the High Court held in "Re Wood" that a supplementary election for just one senate seat would be liable to frustrate the manifest purpose of the proportional voting scheme. Blundell v Vardon Blundell v Vardon, was the first of three decisions of the High Court of Australia concerning the 1906 Election for Senators for South Australia. Sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns, Barton J held that the election of Anti-Socialist Party candidate Joseph Vardon