Defending champion Harold Hilton and Willie Park Jr. led after the first round on 76 .

Hilton led the amateurs on 157 .

Hilton reached Arriving the turn in 35 to be level with Vardon but came back Competition in 40 and finished Process_end two strokes behind .

On March 30 , 1981 , Ronald Wilson Reagan , the 40th President of the United States , was shot Use_firearm and wounded Bodily_harm by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington , D.C. , as he was returning Arriving to his limousine after a speaking Expressing_publicly engagement Participation at the Washington Hilton Hotel .