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Golden Gate Championship
Tournament information
Location San Francisco, California
Established1959
Course(s) Harding Park Golf Club
Par71
Tour(s) PGA Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund US$45,000
Month playedSeptember
Final year1959
Tournament record score
Aggregate275 Mason Rudolph (1959)
To par–9 as above
Final champion
United States Mason Rudolph
Location map
Harding Park GC is located in the United States
Harding Park GC
Harding Park GC
Location in the United States
Harding Park GC is located in California
Harding Park GC
Harding Park GC
Location in California

The Golden Gate Championship was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played in September 1959 at San Francisco's storied Harding Park Golf Club. [1]

The event was won by Mason Rudolph, a 25-year-old Tennessean by two strokes over Dow Finsterwald and Bob Goalby. It was his first victory on the PGA Tour. [1]

Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runners-up
1959 United States Mason Rudolph 275 −9 2 strokes United States Dow Finsterwald
United States Bob Goalby

References

  1. ^ a b Links, Bo (September 23, 2005). "The Legend By the Lake: A Short History of Harding Park". Retrieved April 8, 2010.