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{{short description|Jersey professional golfer (1870–1937)}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2012}}
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{{Infobox golfer
| name              = Harry Vardon
| image             = HarryVardon.jpg
| caption           = Vardon, circa 1908–1914
| fullname          = Henry William Vardon
| nickname          = Harry, The Stylist
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1870|5|9|df=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Grouville]], [[Jersey]], [[Channel Islands]]
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1937|3|20|1870|5|9|df=y}}
| death_place       = [[Whetstone, London]], England
| height            = 5 ft 9 in
| weight            = 11 st 7 lb
| nationality       = {{JEY}}
| residence         =
| spouse            = Jessie Bryant (d. 1946)
| partner           =
| children          =
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| status            = Professional
| yearpro           = 1890
| retired           = <!-- Year retired -->
| tour              = <!-- Current tours which a member of -->
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| prowins           = 49
| majorwins         = [[#Major championships|7]]
| usopen            = '''Won''': [[1900 U.S. Open (golf)|1900]]
| open              = '''Won''': [[1896 Open Championship|1896]], [[1898 Open Championship|1898]], [[1899 Open Championship|1899]], [[1903 Open Championship|1903]], [[1911 Open Championship|1911]], [[1914 Open Championship|1914]]
| wghofid           = harry-vardon
| wghofyear         = 1974
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}}
[[File:Vardon 4176963608 04f13856ce o.jpg|thumb|270px|[[Fred McLeod (golfer)|Fred McLeod]] and Vardon at the [[1913 U.S. Open (golf)|1913 U.S. Open]] ]]
'''Henry William Vardon''' (9 May 1870 – 20 March 1937) was a [[professional golfer]] from [[Jersey]]. He was a member of the [[Great Triumvirate (golf)|Great Triumvirate]] with [[John Henry Taylor]] and [[James Braid (golfer)|James Braid]]. Vardon won [[The Open Championship]] a record six times,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theopen.com/en/History/OpenChampions.aspx#player=Harry+VARDON |title=1896 Harry Vardon |publisher=The Open |access-date=16 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016164928/http://www.theopen.com/en/History/OpenChampions.aspx |archive-date=16 October 2013 }}</ref> and also won the [[1900 U.S. Open (golf)|1900 U.S. Open]].<ref name=towtuhthac>{{cite web|url=http://www.exegolf.com/magazine/19th-hole/retro/3640-harry-vardon-%E2%80%93-the-one-who-taught-us-how-to-hold-a-club.html |magazine=Exegolf |last=Woelfel |first=Rick |title=Harry Vardon – the one who taught us how to hold a club |date=19 January 2011 |access-date=18 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017015135/http://www.exegolf.com/magazine/19th-hole/retro/3640-harry-vardon-%E2%80%93-the-one-who-taught-us-how-to-hold-a-club.html |archive-date=17 October 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1900/10/05/page/5/article/vardon-leads-by-one-stroke |title=Scores of First Day's Golf Play |newspaper=The Chicago Tribune |date=5 October 1900}}</ref> Known as "the Stylist," Vardon's success, as well as his contributions to technique and the sport's fashion, made him golf's first international star and significantly elevated the prestige of the [[professional golfer]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=DiCarlo |first=Daniel |date=2018-04-30 |title=Harry Vardon: Golf's First International Celebrity |url=https://golfcollege.edu/harry-vardon-golfs-first-international-celebrity/ |access-date=2025-06-16 |website=Professional Golfers Career College |language=en-US}}</ref> With his total of seven, Vardon holds the most [[Major championships (golf)|major championships]] of any golfer from the [[British Isles]].<ref>{{Cite web |author1=Roderick Easdale |date=2024-03-27 |title=The Complete List Of Every Golfer To Have Won Multiple Major Championships In The Men's And Women's Games |url=https://www.golfmonthly.com/features/the-complete-list-of-every-golfer-to-have-won-multiple-major-championships-in-the-mens-and-womens-games |access-date=2025-06-16 |website=Golf Monthly |language=en}}</ref>

==Early life==
Born in [[Grouville]], [[Jersey]], [[Channel Islands]], Vardon, whose mother was French and father English, did not play much golf as a youngster, but showed natural talent for the sport as a young [[caddie]] in his teens. Harry and his brother [[Tom Vardon]], younger by two years and also interested in golf, were very close. Their golf development was held back by poor family circumstances and their father was not supportive of his sons' golf interest. 

== Professional career ==
Tom moved from Jersey to England first, to pursue a golf career. Harry went to England in the spring of 1890, taking a job as greenkeeper at age 20, at Studley Royal Golf Club, [[Ripon]], Yorks. A year later he became club professional at [[Bury Golf Club]], and in 1896 the club professional at [[Ganton Golf Club]], in [[Yorkshire]]. By his early 20s, Harry developed a demanding practice program, the most ambitious seen to that time. He was the first professional golfer to play in [[Knickerbockers (clothing)|knickerbockers]] – discarding the "proper" dress of an Englishman in an uncomfortable shirt and tie with a buttoned jacket.<ref name="TGGEP">{{cite book |last=Frost |first=Mark |author-link=Mark Frost |title=The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf |publisher=Hyperion |date=6 November 2002 |isbn=0-7868-6920-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/greatestgameever00fros }}</ref>

In [[1896 Open Championship|1896]], Vardon won the first of his six [[The Open Championship|Open Championships]] (a record that still stands today). Vardon had rivalries with [[James Braid (golfer)|James Braid]] and [[J.H. Taylor]], who each won five Open Championships; together the three formed the 'Great Triumvirate', and dominated worldwide golf from the mid-1890s to the mid-1910s. These rivalries increased the public's interest in golf.

=== Scottish challenge ===
In 1898, Vardon won his second Open Championship at [[Prestwick Golf Club]], beating [[Willie Park, Jnr]] by a single stroke. Park missed a makeable putt on the 18th green to take the match to a play off. So aggrieved was Park that he immediately offered a challenge to Vardon to play him over 72 holes, 36 holes at his home course of Musselburgh and 36 holes at a golf course of Vardon's choosing, for a wager of £100 per side. Park had offered similar challenges before; some years earlier he had met and defeated Ben Sayers at Musselburgh and North Berwick, and in 1897 Park defeated J.H. Taylor over two venues, also for £100 per side. Vardon refused Park's challenge; besides the £100 per side, Vardon had nothing to gain from such a match, and he most certainly was not going to play Park at Musselburgh, where fan partisanship was less than courteous to rival players.

Eventually Park conceded to play his home leg at [[North Berwick Golf Club]] instead of Musselburgh, and Vardon chose his home course of Ganton, Yorkshire. ''Golf Week'' magazine acted as both promoter and stakeholder, and the match took place in July 1899, by which time Vardon had won his third Open Championship. The British press billed the encounter as the greatest golf competition of all time. Such was the interest that 10,000 Scottish fans attended the match at North Berwick, and that on a day when the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) was making a State visit to nearby [[Edinburgh]]. Special trains were laid on to ferry fans from Edinburgh and other nearby towns. The format of the competition was [[match play]]. The first 36 holes at North Berwick ended with Vardon holding a two-hole lead. The second leg took place two weeks later at Ganton, and Vardon completed the rout, winning 11 up with ten holes to play, collecting the £200 prize and the glory.

=== Tours United States and Canada ===
During his career, Harry Vardon made three visits to North America, in 1900, 1913 and 1920. During all three trips he competed in the [[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]] finishing 1st, 2nd and tied 2nd.

He became golf's first international celebrity in 1900 when he toured the United States and [[Canada]]. [[John Henry Taylor]], the 1900 Open Champion and 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 [[1900 U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]], where Taylor was second. Vardon wrote that while on this tour, he lost only two matches<ref name="Vardon Chief Matches">{{cite news|title=Vardon's Chief Matches and Records|year = 1901|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h8g-AQAAMAAJ&q=bernard+nicholls%2C+golfer&pg=PA194|access-date=8 April 2015|publisher=The Tribune Almanac (1901)}}</ref> while playing head-to-head against a single opponent, and both were against the [[Boston]] professional [[Bernard Nicholls|Bernard (Ben) Nicholls]],<ref>''My Golfing Life'', by Harry Vardon, 1933</ref> older brother of [[Gilbert Nicholls]]; the Nicholls brothers had recently emigrated from the British Isles. In 1913, accompanied by [[Ted Ray (golfer)|Ted Ray]], Vardon played in 45 exhibition matches winning 36 of them, and in 1920 at age 50, again accompanied by Ray, he played from July to the beginning of November in nearly 100 exhibition/challenge matches against the likes of [[Walter Hagen]], [[Jim Barnes (golfer)|Jim Barnes]], [[Francis Ouimet]] and [[Bobby Jones (golfer)|Bobby Jones]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Williams|first1=Bill|title=Vardon In America|date=15 March 2016|publisher=Xlibris|isbn=978-1-5144-5372-8}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=December 2017}}

=== Twice runner-up in U.S. Opens ===
Vardon was the runner-up, after a playoff loss to the 20-year-old Ouimet, at his next U.S. Open in [[1913 U.S. Open (golf)|1913]], an event portrayed in the film ''[[The Greatest Game Ever Played]]''. He toured North America with Ted Ray that year, as he did once more in 1920. At the age of 50, Vardon was again tied runner-up in his third and final U.S. Open appearance, in [[1920 U.S. Open (golf)|1920]]; he was leading with a few holes to play.

=== Career accomplishments ===
During his career, Vardon won 48 tournaments and 21 team events; that was the most titles won by a single player to that juncture in golf history. He won the [[German Open (golf)|German Open]] in 1911 and the [[British PGA Matchplay Championship]] in 1912. Between 1898 and 1899 Vardon played in 17 tournaments, winning 14 and coming 2nd in the other three. Vardon popularised the overlapping grip that bears his name, one still used by over 90 percent of golfers; this grip had been originated by [[Johnny Laidlay]] a few years before Vardon adopted it. In his later years, he became a golf course architect,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harry Vardon Golf Courses {{!}} Creator of the Vardon Grip |url=https://www.yourgolftravel.com/golf-architects/harry-vardon-golf-courses |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=www.yourgolftravel.com |language=en}}</ref> designing several courses in Britain, Llandrindod Wells Golf Club, [[Woodhall Spa Golf Club|Woodhall Spa]] and [[Radcliffe-on-Trent Golf Club|Radcliffe-on-Trent]] being notable examples.

==Death and legacy==
Following a bout with [[tuberculosis]] in 1903,<ref>{{cite web |title=Harry Vardon (1870 - 1937) |url=http://www.golfeurope.com/almanac/players/vardon.htm |accessdate=19 October 2021 |website=GolfEurope.com}}</ref> Vardon struggled with health problems for years, but turned to coaching and writing golf instruction and inspirational books. After his comeback to the game following a prolonged absence while recovering from tuberculosis, he experienced serious problems with his short-range putting as a result of nerve damage to his right hand, and several commentators claim that he could have added to his list of majors had this disability not afflicted him.<ref name = "TGGEP" /> Vardon and [[James Braid (golfer)|James Braid]] collaborated on several editions of [[Spalding Athletic Library]] "How to Play Golf".<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Hathitrust |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=Harry%20Vardon&searchtype=all&ft=&setft=false// |title=How to Play Golf |access-date=16 December 2020}}</ref>

Vardon died in 1937 at the age 66, of [[pleurisy]] or possibly [[lung cancer]],<ref name=career/> at his home at 14 (now number 35) Totteridge Lane, [[Whetstone, London]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/|title=Find a will – GOV.UK|website=Probatesearch.service.gov.uk|access-date=12 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34421/page/4852/data.pdf|title=The London Gazette, 4852 – Re: the Estate of Henry William Vardon, Deceased |date=7 July 1937|access-date=17 February 2014}}</ref> and is buried in St. Andrew's Church cemetery in [[Totteridge]] after a funeral service on 24 March.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The Times |date=25 March 1937 |page=6 |title=Funeral of Harry Vardon}}</ref> That year, the [[PGA of America]] created the [[Vardon Trophy]], now awarded annually to the player on the [[PGA Tour]] with the year's lowest adjusted scoring average. The [[Professional Golfers' Association (Great Britain and Ireland)|British PGA]] also created the [[Harry Vardon Trophy]] which now serves as the award for the winner of the [[European Tour]]'s [[Race to Dubai]]. In 1974, Vardon was chosen as one of the initial group of inductees into the [[World Golf Hall of Fame]]. His most prestigious medals, including those from his six British Open Championships, are on display in a tribute to him at the Jersey Museum. In the annals of golf, he is considered one of the greats of the game. In 2000, Vardon was ranked as the 13th best golfer of all time by ''[[Golf Digest]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HFI/is_7_51/ai_63015233 |title=50 Greatest Golfers of All Time: And What They Taught Us |access-date=5 December 2007 |last=Yocom |first=Guy |date=July 2000 |magazine=[[Golf Digest]]}}</ref> Vardon is often called "The Stylist", "Mr. Golf" and "The Icon of Golfing"; another nickname attached to him was "Greyhound".
<!--  Commented out because image was deleted: [[File:Harry Vardon 2002 edited.jpg|thumb|160px|A 2002 collection of Harry Vardon's golf writing.]] -->

==Vardon grip==
[[File:Harry Vardon statue Grouville 3.jpg|thumb|160px|Statue of Vardon at the Royal Jersey Golf Club<br />on the Island of [[Jersey]]]]
Vardon was also well known for the Vardon grip, or overlapping grip, the grip most popular among professional golfers. In the Vardon grip, one places the little finger of the trailing hand (the one placed lower on the club – right hand for a right-handed player) in between the index and middle finger on the leading hand (the hand that is higher on the club). The leading-hand thumb should fit in the lifeline of the trailing hand. Vardon actually took up this grip some time after [[Johnny Laidlay]], a champion Scottish amateur player, invented it.

A visual depiction of the ''Vardon Grip'' is the logo of South Herts Golf Club where Vardon was the club professional from 1902 until his death in 1937

==In popular culture==
*A biography of Vardon, published in 1991 and authored by his daughter-in-law, Audrey Howell, provides much intimate detail about the life of this champion.
*English actor [[Stephen Dillane]] portrayed Vardon in director [[Bill Paxton]]'s 2005 film ''[[The Greatest Game Ever Played]]''. A book of the same name (upon which the movie was based), written by [[Mark Frost]], goes into great detail depicting Vardon's life.
*Irish-American actor [[Aidan Quinn]] portrayed Vardon in the 2004 film ''[[Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius]]''.
*Harry Vardon authored a golf instruction book, ''The Gist of Golf''.
*A career record of Vardon, published in 2015 and authored by Bill Williams, provides a definitive list of the tournaments he played in and where he finished in the field.
*Bill Williams authored in 2016 a second book about Vardon, and his three trips to North America in 1900, 1913 and 1920. The book traces the beginnings of golf in America, the influence Vardon had in popularizing the game and his role in bringing about the Ryder Cup.

==Tournament wins (49)==
[[Men's major golf championships|Major championships]] are shown in '''bold'''.<ref name=career>{{cite book |last=Williams |first=Bill |title=Harry Vardon – A Career Record of a Champion Golfer |date=February 2015 |publisher=Xlibris Publishing |location=USA |isbn=978-1-5035-3568-8 |edition=First }}</ref>{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=December 2017}}

===Singles (48)===
*1896 '''[[1896 Open Championship|The Open Championship]]''', Pau Golf Club Invitational (Fra), Cleveland Golf Club Pro Tournament (Eng)
*1897 Wallasey Open (Eng), Southport Open (Eng)
*1898 '''[[1898 Open Championship|The Open Championship]]''', Royal Musselburgh Open (Sco), Prestwick St Nicholas Tournament (Sco), Windermere Invitational (Eng), Norbury Invitational (Eng), Carnoustie Pro Event (Sco), Earlsferry & Elie Professional Tournament (Sco), [[County Down Professional Tournament]] (Ire), Barton-on-Sea Invitational (Eng), Lytham St Annes Professional Tournament (Eng)
*1899 '''[[1899 Open Championship|The Open Championship]]''', [[Cruden Bay Professional Tournament]] (Sco), [[Irish Championship Meeting Professional Tournament]] (Ire), Mid-Surrey Professional Meeting (Eng)
*1900 '''[[1900 U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]]'''
*1901 Mid-Surrey Professional Tournament (Eng), Glamorganshire Golf Club Invitational (Wal)
*1902 [[Leeds Cup]] (Eng), Witley Court Invitational (Eng), Edzell Golf Club Open Meeting (Sco)
*1903 '''[[1903 Open Championship|The Open Championship]]''', Richmond Golf Club Invitational (Eng), Enfield Golf Club Invitational (Eng), Western Gailes Invitational (Sco)
*1904 The Irvine Golf Club Match Play (Sco)
*1905 Montrose Open (Sco)
*1906 Musselburgh Tournament (Sco), [[News of the World Matchplay]] Southern Section qualifying at Stanmore (tie with [[James Braid (golfer)|James Braid]]) (Eng)
*1907 Blackpool Park Invitational (Eng)
*1908 [[Nice International Tournament]] (Fra), Costebelle Club Invitational (Fra)
*1909 St Andrews Tournament (Sco)
*1911 '''[[1911 Open Championship|The Open Championship]]''', [[Tooting Bec Cup]] (Eng), [[Bramshot Cup]] (Eng), [[German Open (golf)|German Open]] (Ger)
*1912 Cooden Beach Open (Eng), [[News of the World Match Play]] (Eng)
*1913 [[Sphere and Tatler Foursomes]] Southern Section qualifying at Denham (tie with [[James Batley]]) (Eng), US Open qualifying Tournament (USA)
*1914 '''[[1914 Open Championship|The Open Championship]]''', [[Sphere and Tatler Foursomes]] Southern Section qualifying at Worplesdon (Eng), [[Cruden Bay Professional Tournament]] (Sco)

===Foursomes (1)===
*1913 [[Sphere and Tatler Foursomes Tournament]] (Eng) – (with [[Tom Williamson (golfer)|Tom Williamson]])

==Team event wins==
He won team events from 1899 to 1928.<ref name=career/>
*1899 England vs Scotland International Foursome (36 holes match play) Vardon & [[John Ball (golfer)|John Ball]] vs [[Freddie Tait]] & [[Willie Park, Jr.]]
*1905 England vs Scotland International Foursome (144 holes match play) Vardon & [[J.H. Taylor]] vs [[James Braid (golfer)|James Braid]] & [[Sandy Herd]]
*1906 England vs Scotland at Muirfield (Sco) – England won 12 – 6
*1907 England vs Scotland at Hoylake (Eng) – England won 8 – 5 (3 halved)
*1908 [[Nice International Tournament|Great Britain vs France]] at Cagnes (Fra) – Great Britain won 3 – 0
*1909 England vs Scotland at Royal Cinque Ports (Eng) – England won 11 – 4 (3 halved)
*1910 England vs Scotland at St Andrews (Sco) – England won 11 – 5 (2 halved)
*[[1911 Coronation Match]] (Eng) – Professionals beat Amateurs 8 – 1
*1913 England vs Scotland at Hoylake (Eng) – England won 13 – 4 (1 halved)
*1914 International Charity Match (England vs Scotland) at [[Fulwell Golf Course]] (Eng) – England won 8 – 6 (4 halved)
*1920 [[McVitie & Price Tournament#1920 Tournament|England vs Scotland]] at [[Moray Golf Club]] (Sco) – England won 7 – 5 (1 halved)
*1921 [[Ryder Cup#Gleneagles 1921|Great Britain vs USA]] at Gleneagles (Sco) – GB won 9 – 3 (3 halved)
*1928 [[Samuel Ryder#Later sponsorship|Seniors vs Juniors]] at Verulam (Eng) – Seniors won 7 – 1 (2 halved)

==Major championships==

===Wins (7)===
{|class="sortable wikitable"
!Year!!Championship!!54 holes!!Winning score!!Margin!!Runner-up
|-style="background:#ABCDEF;"
| align=center|[[1896 Open Championship|1896]] ||[[The Open Championship]] ||4 shot deficit ||83-78-78-77=316 ||Playoff <sup>1</sup> ||{{flagicon|ENG}} [[J.H. Taylor]]
|-style="background:#ABCDEF;"
| align=center|[[1898 Open Championship|1898]] ||The Open Championship <small> (2)</small> ||2 shot deficit ||79-75-77-76=307 ||1 stroke ||{{flagicon|SCO}} [[Willie Park, Jr.]]
|-style="background:#ABCDEF;"
| align=center|[[1899 Open Championship|1899]] ||The Open Championship <small> (3)</small> ||3 shot lead ||76-76-81-77=310 ||5 strokes ||{{flagicon|SCO}} [[Jack White (golfer)|Jack White]]
|-style="background:#FBCEB1;"
| align=center|[[1900 U.S. Open (golf)|1900]] ||[[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]] ||4 shot lead ||79-78-76-80=313 ||2 strokes ||{{flagicon|ENG}} J.H. Taylor
|-style="background:#ABCDEF;"
| align=center|[[1903 Open Championship|1903]] ||The Open Championship <small> (4)</small> ||7 shot lead ||73-77-72-78=300 ||6 strokes ||{{flagicon|Jersey}} [[Tom Vardon]]
|-style="background:#ABCDEF;"
| align=center|[[1911 Open Championship|1911]] ||The Open Championship <small> (5)</small> ||3 shot lead ||74-74-75-80=303 ||Playoff <sup>2</sup> ||{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Arnaud Massy]]
|-style="background:#ABCDEF;"
| align=center|[[1914 Open Championship|1914]] ||The Open Championship <small> (6)</small> ||2 shot deficit ||73-77-78-78=306 ||3 strokes ||{{flagicon|ENG}} J.H. Taylor
|}
<sup>1</sup> Defeated J.H. Taylor in 36-hole playoff by 4 strokes <br />
<sup>2</sup> Defeated Arnaud Massy in 36-hole playoff: Massy conceded on the 35th hole

===Results timeline===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center;"
!Tournament
!1893
!1894
!1895
!1896
!1897
!1898
!1899
|-
|align=left|[[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]]
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NYF
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NYF
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|-
|align=left|[[The Open Championship]]
|T23
|style="background:yellow;"|T5
|style="background:yellow;"|T9
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:yellow;"|6
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center;"
!Tournament
!1900
!1901
!1902
!1903
!1904
!1905
!1906
!1907
!1908
!1909
|-
|align=left|[[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]]
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|-
|align=left|[[The Open Championship]]
|style="background:yellow;"|2
|style="background:yellow;"|2
|style="background:yellow;"|T2
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:yellow;"|5
|style="background:yellow;"|T9
|style="background:yellow;"|3
|style="background:yellow;"|T7
|style="background:yellow;"|T5
|T26
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center;"
!Tournament
!1910
!1911
!1912
!1913
!1914
!1915
!1916
!1917
!1918
!1919
|-
|align=left|[[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]]
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:yellow;"|2
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|-
|align=left|[[The Open Championship]]
|T16
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:yellow;"|2
|style="background:yellow;"|T3
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center;"
!Tournament
!1920
!1921
!1922
!1923
!1924
!1925
!1926
!1927
!1928
!1929
|-
|align=left|[[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]]
|style="background:yellow;"|T2
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|-
|align=left|[[The Open Championship]]
|T14
|T23
|style="background:yellow;"|T8
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|T17
|CUT
|CUT
|T47
|CUT
|}
''Note: Vardon only played in [[The Open Championship]] and the [[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]].''<br />
{{legend|lime|Win}}
{{legend|yellow|Top 10}}
{{legend|#eeeeee|Did not play}}
NYF = Tournament not yet founded<br />
NT = No tournament<br />
CUT = missed the half-way cut<br />
"T" indicates a tie for a place

==Photo library==
<gallery>
Harry Vardon 1899 GI .jpg|Harry Vardon 1899
Braid-James-with-Harry-Varden-c-1907.jpg|Vardon & James Braid
Harry-vardon display image.jpg|Harry Vardon
Commerative stone Jersey GC.jpg|Royal Jersey G.C.
Jones & Vardon 1920.jpg|Bobby Jones & Vardon 1920 US Open
Ted Ray & Harry Vardon 1920.jpg|Ted Ray & Harry 1920
British Team 1921 - Gleneagles.jpg|British Team 1921 at Gleneagles
Harry Vardon Willie Anderson JH Taylor 1900 US Open winners .jpg|Vardon, Willie Anderson & J.H. Taylor 1900 US Open
Vardon 1900.jpg|Harry Vardon at Poland Springs 1900
</gallery>

==Bibliography==
*The Complete Golfer (1905)
*How to Play Golf (1907)
*Success at Golf (1914)
*Golf Club Selection (1916)
*Progressive Golf (1920)
*The Gist of Golf (1922)
*My Golfing Life (1933)

==See also==
*[[List of men's major championships winning golfers]]
*[[List of golfers with most wins in one PGA Tour event]]
*[[River Mun#Mun valley and Mundesley golf course|Mundesley Golf Course]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060516124718/http://www.golflegends.org/harry-vardon.php Profile at golf legends]
*{{World Golf Hall of Fame|harry-vardon}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071205234431/http://www.hickorygolfers.com/dublincore/dckeyword.php?dc_searchstring=vardon SoHG resources on Vardon]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071018211425/http://hickorygolfers.com/articletemplate.php?art=vardon_architecture_1912.htm Vardon on Course Architecture]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071018205932/http://hickorygolfers.com/articletemplate.php?art=harry_vardon_by_darwin2.htm Bernard Darwin on the Style of Harry Vardon]
*{{Gutenberg author | id=33146| name=Harry Vardon}}
*{{Internet Archive author |sname=Harry Vardon}}
* {{Librivox author |id=17589}}
*{{Find a Grave|91610336}}
*[http://www.southhertsgolfclub.co.uk/ Home of the Vardon Grip]

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