1949 Official US Open Golf Programme: 49th Open Championship 9-11 June played at Medinah Country Club Illinois. Cary Middlecoff won the first of his two US Open titles, one stroke ahead of runners-up Clayton Heafner and Sam Snead. For Snead, it was the third of four second-place finishes at the only major championship he never won. Middlecoff, a dentist, won his second US Open in 1956. Condition some spine missing top and bottom, overall clean throughout