The Gulfport Open was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that played in the 1940s on Mississippi's oldest golf course, the Great Southern Golf Club of Gulfport. [1]
At the 1945 event, Byron Nelson and Sam Snead finished play in regulation tied for the lead. Nineteen holes later, Nelson conceded a putt to Snead giving him the tournament. Later that year, Nelson would complete a record-setting season by winning eighteen tournaments, 11 of them consecutively. [1]
The Great Southern golf club was designed by Donald Ross in 1908. [1]
Winners
- 1945 Sam Snead
- 1944 Harold "Jug" McSpaden
References
- ^ a b c "Michigan Golfer ON-LINE: The Mississippi Gulf Coast". Retrieved 2009-06-03.