Tom Vardon in St. Paul, Minnesota. Vardon was posthumously inducted into the Minnesota PGA Golf Hall of Fame in 2012. "Note: Vardon only played in The Open Championship and the U.S. Open."<br> WD = Withdrew<br> "T" indicates a tie for a place Saywell, J. (1990) A History of the Ilkley Golf Club 1890–1990, Otley, Smith Settle Tom Vardon Thomas Alfred Vardon (11 October 1874 – 13 October 1938) was a professional golfer from Jersey, Channel Islands, and the brother of golfing icon Harry Vardon. Tom was a superb player in his own right, often beating his legendary brother. From 1892 to 1909
Harry Vardon member of the Great Triumvirate, also traveled to the USA on a mini tour in 1900. Vardon played in more than 90 matches and capped it off with a victory in the U.S. Open, where Taylor was second. Vardon wrote that while on this tour, he lost only two matches while playing head-to-head against a single opponent, and both were against the Boston professional Bernard (Ben) Nicholls, older brother of Gilbert Nicholls; the Nicholls brothers had recently emigrated from the British Isles. In 1913, accompanied by Ted Ray, Vardon played in 45 exhibition matches winning 36 of them, and in