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{{Short description|Professional golf tournament}}
{{Infobox golf tournament
| name             = Blue Ribbon Open
| image            = 
| location         = [[Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin|Menomenee Falls]],<br>[[Wisconsin]], U.S.
| establishment    = 1951
| course           = North Hills Country Club 
| par              = 71
| yardage          = {{convert|6257|yd}}<ref name=jkcfrd>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DH1aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=F08DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5443%2C2559871|work=St. Petersburg Times |location=(Florida) |agency=Associated Press |title=Joe Kirkwood cards final round 64 to win Blue Ribbon golf tourney |date=July 23, 1951 |page=11}}</ref>
| tour             = [[PGA Tour]]
| format           = [[Stroke play]]
| purse            = [[United States dollar|$]]20,000 <ref name=jkcfrd/>
| month_played     = July
| aggregate        = 
| to-par           = 
| current_champion = 
| final_year       = 1951
| final_champion   = {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Joe Kirkwood Jr.]], 271 (–13)
}}
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|label      = <small>Milwaukee</small>
|lat        = 43.05
|long       = -87.95
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|USA Wisconsin
|relief     = 1
|label      = <small>Menomenee Falls</small>
|lat        = 43.151
|long       = -88.077
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The '''Blue Ribbon Open''' was a professional [[golf]] tournament on the [[PGA Tour]], played only in 1951. It was held in [[Wisconsin]] at the North Hills Country Club in [[Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin|Menomenee Falls]], northwest of [[Milwaukee]].

Part-time [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] actor [[Joe Kirkwood Jr.]] won the event at 271 (–13), two shots over runners-up [[Sam Snead]] and [[Jim Ferrier]], the {{nowrap|54-hole}} leader.<ref name=ferleds>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1951/07/22/page/44/article/ferrier-leads-in-milwaukee-open-with-206 |work=Chicago Sunday Tribune |agency=Associated Press |title=Ferrier leads in Milwaukee Open |date=July 22, 1951 |page=6, sec. 2}}</ref> The purse was [[United States dollar|$]]20,000 with a winner's share of $2,750.<ref name=jkcfrd>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DH1aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=F08DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5443%2C2559871|work=St. Petersburg Times |location=(Florida) |agency=Associated Press |title=Joe Kirkwood cards final round 64 to win Blue Ribbon golf tourney |date=July 23, 1951 |page=11}}</ref> Kirkwood equaled the course record in the final round with a seven-under 64.<ref name=cdtkirk>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1951/07/23/page/34/article/kirkwoods-271-wins-golf-meet-at-milwaukee |work=Chicago Daily Tribune |agency=Associated Press |title=Kirkwood's 271 wins golf meet at Milwaukee |date=July 23, 1951 |page=2, sec. 3 }}</ref> He had won on tour three years earlier at the [[Philadelphia Inquirer Open]]. Following the win, Kirkwood left to go [[Recreational fishing|fishing]] in [[Northern Highland|northern]] Wisconsin.<ref name=kedgessnd>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ni0gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CPEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5450%2C2180741 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon)|agency=United Press |title=Kirkwood edges Snead for first |date=July 23, 1961 |page=10}}</ref>

North Hills was the site of the [[Milwaukee Open]] in 1940 and later hosted the [[Milwaukee Open Invitational]] in 1960 and 1961.

==Leaderboard==
''Sunday, July 22, 1951''
{| class="wikitable"
!Place!!Player!!Country!!Score!!To par!!Money ([[United States dollar|$]])
|-
|align=center|1 || '''[[Joe Kirkwood Jr.]]''' || {{flagcountry|AUS}} || 72-66-69-64=271 || align=center|−13 || align=center| 2,750 
|-
|align=center|2 || [[Sam Snead]] || {{flagcountry|USA|1912}} || 67-70-70-65=273 || align=center|−11 || align=center|1,900
|-
|rowspan=2 align=center|T3 || [[Jim Ferrier]] || {{AUS}} || 70-68-68-68=274 || rowspan=2 align=center|−10 || rowspan=2 align=center|1,475
|-
|[[Lloyd Mangrum]] || {{flagcountry|USA|1912}} || 71-67-70-66=274
|-
|align=center|5 || [[Skee Riegel]] || {{flagcountry|USA|1912}} || 73-66-68-68=275 || align=center|−9 || align=center|1,150
|-
|align=center|6 || [[Jimmy Demaret]] || {{flagcountry|USA|1912}} || 68-69-70-72=279 || align=center|−5 || align=center|1,000
|-
|rowspan=4 align=center|T7 || [[Julius Boros]] || {{flagcountry|USA|1912}} || 69-68-72-71=280 || rowspan=4 align=center|−4 || rowspan=4 align=center|762
|-
|[[Jack Burke Jr.]] || {{flagcountry|USA|1912}} || 73-68-68-71=280
|-
|[[George Fazio]] || {{flagcountry|USA|1912}} || 68-70-72-70=280
|-
|Glenn Teal || {{flagcountry|USA|1912}} || 67-67-74-72=280
|} 
<small>Source:</small><ref name=cdtkirk/>

==See also==
Other former PGA Tour events in Milwaukee
*[[Milwaukee Open]], 1940
*[[Milwaukee Open Invitational]], 1955–61
*[[Greater Milwaukee Open]], 1968–2009

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://nhccwi.com/ North Hills Country Club]
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