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The '''Miami International Four-Ball''' was a [[golf]] tournament on the [[PGA Tour]] from 1924 to 1954. It was played primarily at what is now the Miami Springs Golf and Country Club in [[Miami, Florida]]. It was also played at the Miami Biltmore Golf Course in [[Coral Gables, Florida]] from 1939 to 1942 and at the Normandy Shore Club in [[Miami Beach, Florida]] from 1952 to 1954.

It was played with eight two-man teams in single elimination [[match play]] initially. It went to 16 teams in 1926 and to 32 teams in 1950. In 1954, 40 teams played in a  72-hole [[stroke play]] format.

==Winners==
'''Miami Beach International Four-Ball'''
*1954 [[Tommy Bolt]] and [[Dick Mayer]]
*1953 ''No tournament''
*1952 [[Ted Kroll]] and [[Lew Worsham]]
*1951 ''No tournament''

'''Miami International Four-Ball'''
*1950 [[Pete Cooper (golfer)|Pete Cooper]] and [[Claude Harmon]]
*1949 [[Jim Ferrier]] and [[Cary Middlecoff]]
*1948 [[Jim Ferrier]] and [[Cary Middlecoff]]
*1947 [[Jimmy Demaret]] and [[Ben Hogan]]
*1946 [[Jimmy Demaret]] and [[Ben Hogan]]
*1945 [[Harold "Jug" McSpaden]] and [[Byron Nelson]]
*1943-44 ''No tournament due to [[World War II]]''

'''Miami Biltmore International Four-Ball'''
*1942 [[Chandler Harper]] and [[Herman Keiser]]
*1941 [[Ben Hogan]] and [[Gene Sarazen]]
*1940 [[Billy Burke (golfer)|Billy Burke]] and [[Craig Wood (golfer)|Craig Wood]]
*1939 [[Ralph Guldahl]] and [[Sam Snead]]

'''Miami International Four-Ball'''
*1938 [[Ky Laffoon]] and [[Dick Metz]]
*1937 [[Henry Picard]] and [[Johnny Revolta]]
*1936 [[Henry Picard]] and [[Johnny Revolta]]
*1935 [[Henry Picard]] and [[Johnny Revolta]]
*1934 [[Al Espinosa]] and [[Denny Shute]]
*1933 [[Paul Runyan]] and [[Horton Smith]]
*1932 [[Tommy Armour]] and [[Ed Dudley]]
*1931 [[Wiffy Cox]] and [[Willie Macfarlane]]
*1930 [[Clarence Gamber]] and [[Cyril Walker (golfer)|Cyril Walker]]
*1929 [[Leo Diegel]] and [[Walter Hagen]]
*1928 [[Johnny Farrell]] and [[Gene Sarazen]]
*1927 [[Tommy Armour]] and [[Bobby Cruickshank]]
*1926 [[Bill Mehlhorn]] and [[Macdonald Smith]]
*1925 [[Bobby Cruickshank]] and [[Johnny Farrell]]
*1924 [[Bill Mehlhorn]] and [[Macdonald Smith]]

==External links==
*[http://www.miamispringsgolfcourse.com/ Miami Springs Golf and Country Club]
*[http://www.miamispringsgolfcourse.com/history.pdf Miami Springs Golf Course history] - see page 7
*[http://www.biltmorehotel.com/golf/default.asp Miami Biltmore Golf Course]

{{Former PGA Tour Events}}

[[Category:Former PGA Tour events]]
[[Category:Golf tournaments in Florida]]
[[Category:Sports competitions in Miami]]
[[Category:Recurring sporting events established in 1924]]
[[Category:Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1954]]
[[Category:1924 establishments in Florida]]
[[Category:1954 disestablishments in Florida]]


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