Miami Beach Open
Encyclopedia
The Miami Beach Open was a golf
tournament on the PGA Tour
in the late 1920s and again in the 1950s. It was held at several different courses in the Miami Beach, Florida
area.
^ 36-hole event
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
tournament on the 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...
in the late 1920s and again in the 1950s. It was held at several different courses in the Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter which separates the Beach from Miami city proper...
area.
Winners
| Year | Winner | Score | Course(s) | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Al Balding Al Balding Allan George Balding was a Canadian professional golfer, who won four events on the PGA Tour. In 1955 he became the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event in the United States; Canadians Ken Black and Jules Huot had won PGA Tour events in Canada in the 1930s.Balding was born in Toronto,... |
137^ | Bayshore | |
| 1956 | Gardner Dickinson | 272 | Bayshore | |
| 1955 | Eric Monti Eric Monti Eric Monti was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.... |
270 | Bayshore | |
| 1952-54 | No tournament | |||
| 1951 | Jim Ferrier Jim Ferrier James B. Ferrier was an Australian professional golfer from Manly, New South Wales. He became an American citizen in 1944.-Early years:... |
273 | Normandy | |
| 1950 | Sam Snead Sam Snead Samuel Jackson Snead was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour events including seven majors. He failed to win a U.S... |
273 | Normandy, Bayshore | |
| 1930-49 | No tournament | |||
| 1929 | Gene Sarazen Gene Sarazen Gene Sarazen was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s. He is one of five golfers to win all the current major championships in his career, the Career Grand Slam:U.S... |
286 | Bayshore, La Gorce | |
| 1928 | Gene Sarazen Gene Sarazen Gene Sarazen was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s. He is one of five golfers to win all the current major championships in his career, the Career Grand Slam:U.S... |
292 | La Gorce, Bayshore | |
| 1927 | Gene Sarazen Gene Sarazen Gene Sarazen was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s. He is one of five golfers to win all the current major championships in his career, the Career Grand Slam:U.S... |
277 | Bayshore | |
^ 36-hole event
External links
- Bayshore Golf Course - now called Miami Beach Golf Club
- La Gorce Country Club
- Normandy Shores Golf Club