Gulfport Open
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Golf tournament formerly on the PGA Tour
The Gulfport Open was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that played in the 1940s on Mississippi's oldest golf course, the Great Southern Golf Club of Gulfport.[1]
At the 1945 event, Byron Nelson and Sam Snead finished play in regulation tied for the lead. Nineteen holes later, Nelson conceded a putt to Snead giving him the tournament. Later that year, Nelson would complete a record-setting season by winning eighteen tournaments, 11 of them consecutively.[1]
The Great Southern golf club was designed by Donald Ross in 1908.[1]
Winners
[edit ]- 1945 Sam Snead
- 1944 Harold "Jug" McSpaden
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c "Michigan Golfer ON-LINE: The Mississippi Gulf Coast" . Retrieved 2009年06月03日.