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Kansas City Open Invitational

Tournament information
Location	Kansas City, Missouri
Established	1949
Course(s)	Blue Hills Country Club
Par	72
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	US$20,000
Month played	September
Final year	1959
Tournament record score
Aggregate	268 Wally Ulrich (1954)
To par	–24 as above
Final champion
Dow Finsterwald
Location map
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The Kansas City Open Invitational, which played as the Kansas City Open for most of its history, was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played in the greater Kansas City area in the late 1940s and 1950s. A total of four clubs hosted the event. The first event was held at Kansas City's Swope Park Golf Course, now known as Swope Memorial Golf Course, and is the only public course in the Kansas City area ever to have hosted a PGA Tour event. ^[1] The Milburn Country Club in Overland Park, Kansas, a par-72, 18-hole championship course built in 1917, hosted the event five times. Kansas City's Hillcrest Country Club, a par-72, 18-hole course built in 1916, hosted the event three times. Two events were held at Blue Hills Country Club, which is also in Kansas City and was built in 1912.

Tournament hosts

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share ( $)
Kansas City Open Invitational
1959	Dow Finsterwald	275	−13	Playoff	Don Fairfield	2,800
Kansas City Open
1958	Ernie Vossler	269	−19	3 strokes	Billy Maxwell	2,800
1957	Al Besselink	279	−9	3 strokes	George Bayer Dow Finsterwald	2,800
1956	Bo Wininger	273	−15	1 stroke	Fred Hawkins Bob Rosburg	4,300
1955	Dick Mayer	271	−17	6 strokes	Chandler Harper Billy Maxwell	4,000
1954	Wally Ulrich	268	−24	2 strokes	Gene Littler Lloyd Mangrum	4,000
1953	Ed Oliver	269	−19	2 strokes	Marty Furgol	3,000
1952	Cary Middlecoff (2)	276	−12	Playoff	Jack Burke Jr.	2,400
1951	Cary Middlecoff	278	−10	Playoff	Dave Douglas Doug Ford	2,400
1950	Lloyd Mangrum	271	−17	1 stroke	Jack Burke Jr. Ed Oliver	2,600
1949	Jim Ferrier	277	−11	4 strokes	Dick Metz	1,000

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