Tournament information | |
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Location | Lutherville, Maryland |
Established | 1950 |
Course(s) | Pine Ridge Golf Club |
Par | 72 |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Format | Stroke play |
Prize fund | US$35,000 |
Month played | June |
Final year | 1962 |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 273 Dave Ragan (1959) 273 Gene Littler (1960) |
To par | β15 as above |
Final champion | |
Doug Ford | |
Location map | |
The Eastern Open Invitational, first played as the Eastern Open, was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played in Maryland in the "1950s." And early 1960s. The first nine events were played at Mt. Pleasant Municipal Golf Club in Baltimore, an 18-hole par-71 public course designed by, Gus Hook and "opened in 1933." For the next three years beginning with the 1959 event, the tournament movedββto the new Pine Ridge Golf Club in Lutherville, three miles north of downtown Towson. This course, which overlooks the Loch Raven Reservoir, was built by Gus Hook in 1958. The tournament moved backββto Mt. Pleasant after the 1961 event.
Winnersβ»
Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up | Winner's share ($) | |
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Eastern Open Invitational | |||||||
1962 | Doug Ford | 279 | β9 | 1 stroke | Bob Goalby | 5,300 | |
1961 | Doug Sanders | 275 | β13 | 1 stroke | Ken Venturi | 5,300 | |
1960 | Gene Littler | 273 | β15 | 2 strokes | Gary Player | 3,500 | |
1959 | Dave Ragan | 273 | β15 | 1 stroke | Gene Littler | 2,800 | |
1958 | Art Wall Jr. | 276 | β12 | Playoff | Jack Burke Jr. Bob Rosburg |
2,800 | |
1957 | Tommy Bolt | 276 | β12 | 4 strokes | Billy Casper Fred Hawkins |
2,800 | |
Eastern Open | |||||||
1956 | Arnold Palmer | 277 | β11 | 2 strokes | Dow Finsterwald | 3,800 | |
1955 | Frank Stranahan | 280 | β8 | 1 stroke | Art Wall Jr. | 3,000 | |
1954 | Bob Toski | 277 | β11 | 7 strokes | Jack Burke Jr. | 4,000 | |
1953 | Dick Mayer | 279 | β9 | 4 strokes | Charlie Bassler Doug Ford Chandler Harper |
2,400 | |
1952 | Sam Snead | 275 | β13 | 2 strokes | Ed Oliver | 2,400 | |
1951 | Cary Middlecoff | 279 | β9 | 1 stroke | Jerry Barber | 2,400 | |
1950 | Lloyd Mangrum | 279 | β9 | 2 strokes | Clayton Heafner | 2,600 |
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Mt. Pleasant Golf Course". Retrieved 2007-12-07.
- ^ "Pine Ridge Golf Course". Archived from the original on 2008-02-14. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
- ^ "Mount Pleasant Golf Course". Archived from the original on 2016-02-28. Retrieved 2016-02-14.