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Eastern Open Invitational
Tournament information
Location Lutherville, Maryland
Established1950
Course(s)Pine Ridge Golf Club
Par72
Tour(s) PGA Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund US$35,000
Month playedJune
Final year1962
Tournament record score
Aggregate273 Dave Ragan (1959)
273 Gene Littler (1960)
To par−15 as above
Final champion
United States Doug Ford
Location Map
Pine Ridge GC is located in the United States
Pine Ridge GC
Pine Ridge GC
Location in the United States
Pine Ridge GC is located in Maryland
Pine Ridge GC
Pine Ridge GC
Location in Maryland

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. [1] For the next three years beginning with the 1959 event, the tournament moved to 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. [2] The tournament moved back to Mt. Pleasant after the 1961 event. [3]

Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up Winner's
share ($)
Eastern Open Invitational
1962 United States Doug Ford 279 −9 1 stroke United States Bob Goalby 5,300
1961 United States Doug Sanders 275 −13 1 stroke United States Ken Venturi 5,300
1960 United States Gene Littler 273 −15 2 strokes South Africa Gary Player 3,500
1959 United States Dave Ragan 273 −15 1 stroke United States Gene Littler 2,800
1958 United States Art Wall Jr. 276 −12 Playoff United States Jack Burke Jr.
United States Bob Rosburg
2,800
1957 United States Tommy Bolt 276 −12 4 strokes United States Billy Casper
United States Fred Hawkins
2,800
Eastern Open
1956 United States Arnold Palmer 277 −11 2 strokes United States Dow Finsterwald 3,800
1955 United States Frank Stranahan 280 −8 1 stroke United States Art Wall Jr. 3,000
1954 United States Bob Toski 277 −11 7 strokes United States Jack Burke Jr. 4,000
1953 United States Dick Mayer 279 −9 4 strokes United States Charlie Bassler
United States Doug Ford
United States Chandler Harper
2,400
1952 United States Sam Snead 275 −13 2 strokes United States Ed Oliver 2,400
1951 United States Cary Middlecoff 279 −9 1 stroke United States Jerry Barber 2,400
1950 United States Lloyd Mangrum 279 −9 2 strokes United States Clayton Heafner 2,600

References

  1. ^ "Mt. Pleasant Golf Course". Retrieved 2007-12-07.
  2. ^ "Pine Ridge Golf Course". Archived from the original on 2008-02-14. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
  3. ^ "Mount Pleasant Golf Course". Archived from the original on 2016-02-28. Retrieved 2016-02-14.