The Alcan Golfer of the Year Championship, also known as the Alcan Open, was an international golf

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 tournament played from 1967 to 1970. It was sponsored by Alcan Aluminum Ltd. of Canada, a long-time corporate sponsor of professional golf on international circuits. A concurrent Alcan International tournament was also played. The 1969 tournament, played in the United States, was an official PGA Tour

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 event.

Tournament hosts

• 1970 Portmarnock Golf Club
  Portmarnock Golf Club
  Portmarnock Golf Club was established in 1894, and lies just North of Dublin, in Portmarnock, Fingal, Ireland. The course was laid out by William Pickeman on land owned by the distiller John Jameson, and originally consisted of just 9 holes, with another nine being added two years later.Portmarnock...
  
  , Portmarnock
  Portmarnock
  Portmarnock is a small suburban village to the north of Dublin, Ireland. It is in the administrative county of Fingal.-Location:Portmarnock lies on the coast and, owing to its proximity to Dublin city, is a form of dormitory village north-northeast of the city centre...
  
  , Ireland
  Republic of Ireland
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• 1969 Portland Golf Club
  Portland Golf Club
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  , Portland, Oregon
  Portland, Oregon
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  , USA
• 1968 Royal Birkdale Golf Club
  Royal Birkdale Golf Club
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  , Southport
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  , England
  England
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• 1967 Old Course at St Andrews
  Old Course at St Andrews
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  , St Andrews
  St Andrews
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  , Scotland
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Winners

Alcan Golfer of the Year Championship

• 1970 Bruce Devlin
  Bruce Devlin
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• 1969 Billy Casper
  Billy Casper
  William Earl Casper, Jr. is an American professional golfer who was one of the most prolific tournament winners on the PGA Tour from the mid 1950s to the mid 1970s.-Early years:...
  
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• 1968 Gay Brewer
  Gay Brewer
  Gay Robert Brewer, Jr. was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and won the 1967 Masters Tournament....
  
  
• 1967 Gay Brewer
  Gay Brewer
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Alcan International

• 1970 Paddy Skerritt
  Paddy Skerritt
  Patrick Joseph Skerritt was an Irish professional golfer.Skerritt born in Lahinch, County Clare. He won many tournaments during his career, most of them in his home country, with his biggest success being the 1970 Alcan International...
  
  
• 1969
• 1968 Christy O'Connor Snr
  Christy O'Connor Snr
  Christy O'Connor is a former Irish professional golferO'Connor was born in Knocknacarra, Galway. He turned professional in 1946. Throughout the 1960s he won at least one professional event during each year on the British Tour, a level of consistent success matched by very few other players...
  
  
• 1967 Peter Thomson