The Lucky International Open was a PGA Tour

PGA Tour

The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...

 event that was played in the 1960s at Harding Park Golf Club, a public course in San Francisco across Lake Merced

Lake Merced

Lake Merced is a freshwater lake in the southwest corner of San Francisco. It is surrounded by three golf courses , as well as residential areas, Lowell High School, San Francisco State University, Fort Funston and the Pacific Ocean...

 from the more glamorous Olympic Club

Olympic Club

The Olympic Club is a San Francisco, California, athletic club and private social club with three golf courses located at San Francisco's border with Daly City, California. The club's main "City Clubhouse" is located in downtown San Francisco. The club's "Lakeside Clubhouse" is located just north...

. One of the founders and sponsors of the Lucky International Open was Eugene Selvage

Eugene Selvage

Eugene "Gene" S. Selvage was the owner of Lucky Lager Brewing Company and a founder of the Lucky International Open.-Personal life:...

, owner of the Lucky Lager Brewing Company. San Francisco native and long-time veteran, Ken Venturi

Ken Venturi

Kenneth Venturi is an American former professional golfer and golf broadcaster.-Early years and amateur career:Venturi was born in San Francisco, California. He learned golf from an early age, and developed his game at Harding Park Golf Course and other public courses in the area...

, would win his 14th and last PGA Tour event here in 1966. The deteriorating conditions and antiquated facilities at Harding Park caused the PGA Tour to leave at the end of the decade.

Winners

San Francisco Open Invitational

• 1969 Steve Spray
  Steve Spray
  Steven Spray is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s.Spray was born in Des Moines, Iowa and reared in Indianola, Iowa. His first big win as an amateur came in the 1958 Iowa Junior Amateur; the next year he gained national fame by winning the Western...
  
  

Lucky International Open

• 1968 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:...
  
  
• 1967 No tournament
• 1966 Ken Venturi
  Ken Venturi
  Kenneth Venturi is an American former professional golfer and golf broadcaster.-Early years and amateur career:Venturi was born in San Francisco, California. He learned golf from an early age, and developed his game at Harding Park Golf Course and other public courses in the area...
  
  
• 1965 George Archer
  George Archer
  George William Archer was an American golfer who won twelve events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship.Archer was born in San Francisco, California and was raised just south in the city of San Mateo...
  
  
• 1964 Chi Chi Rodriguez
• 1963 Jack Burke, Jr.
• 1962 Gene Littler
  Gene Littler
  Gene Alec Littler is an American professional golfer. Known for a solid temperament and nicknamed "Gene the Machine" for his smooth rhythmical swing, he once said that, "Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the best misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes."-Early years...
  
  
• 1961 Gary Player
  Gary Player
  Gary Player DMS; OIG is a South African professional golfer. With his nine major championship victories, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of golf. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974. Player has won 165 tournaments on six continents over six...