Portland Open Invitational

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Template:Short description Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Portland Open Invitational was a professional golf tournament in the northwest United States on the PGA Tour, played in Portland, Oregon. Established by Robert A. Hudson with a $10,000 purse in 1944, it was played from 1944 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1966. The event was hosted eight times at the Portland Golf Club,[1] and four times at the Columbia Edgewater Country Club.[2] First played as the Portland Open, the revived 1959 event played as the Portland Centennial Open Invitational, in honor of Oregon's centennial of statehood.[3]

Sam Snead won the inaugural event in 1944,[4] and Ben Hogan won in 1945 by fourteen strokes,[5][6] and also won the 1946 PGA Championship, then a match play event, held at the Portland Golf Club.[7] The club also hosted the Ryder Cup in 1947; the U.S. team was captained by Hogan and won 11–1. Hogan was a runner-up in 1948, a stroke back in an 18-hole playoff.[8][9]

The tournament was dominated by three-time winners Billy Casper (1959–61)[10] and Jack Nicklaus (1962, 1964–65).[11][12] Nicklaus' $3,500 win during his rookie season in 1962 concluded three weeks of victories;[13] he took the massive winner's share of $50,000 in the exhibition World Series of Golf in Ohio,[14][15] and then won his second tour title at the Seattle Open Invitational, which paid $4,300.[16][17] Both Casper and Nicklaus won at both courses.

Bert Yancey won the last edition in 1966 and took only 102 putts.[18] It stood as the tour's 72-hole record for fewest putts for over a decade, until Bob Menne had only 99 at the Tournament Players Championship in 1977,[19] but tied for 47th.[20]

Tournament hosts

Venue Years
Portland Golf Club 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948,
1959, 1960, 1964, 1965
Columbia Edgewater Country Club 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966

Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Purse
(US$)		 Winner's
share ($)		 Ref.
Portland Open Invitational
1966 Template:Flagicon Bert Yancey 271 −17 3 strokes Template:Flagicon Billy Casper 50,000 6,600 [18]
1965 Template:Flagicon Jack Nicklaus (3) 273 −15 3 strokes Template:Flagicon Dave Marr 50,000 6,600 [12]
1964 Template:Flagicon Jack Nicklaus (2) 275 −13 3 strokes Template:Flagicon Ken Venturi 40,000 5,800 [11]
1963 Template:Flagicon George Knudson 272 −16 Playoff Template:Flagicon Mason Rudolph 30,000 4,300 [21]
1962 Template:Flagicon Jack Nicklaus 269 −19 1 stroke Template:Flagicon George Bayer 25,000 3,500 [13]
1961 Template:Flagicon Billy Casper (3) 273 −15 1 stroke Template:Flagicon Dave Hill 25,000 3,500 [10]
1960 Template:Flagicon Billy Casper (2) 266 −22 2 strokes Template:Flagicon Paul Harney 27,500 2,800 [22]
Portland Centennial Open Invitational
1959 Template:Flagicon Billy Casper 269 −19 3 strokes Template:Flagicon Bob Duden
Template:Flagicon Dave Ragan		 20,000 2,800 [3]
Portland Open Invitational
1949–1958: No tournament
1948 Template:Flagicon Fred Haas 270 −18 Playoff Template:Flagicon Ben Hogan (2nd)
Template:Flagicon Johnny Palmer (3rd)		 15,000 2,450 [8][9]
1947 Template:Flagicon Charles Congdon 270 −18 6 strokes Template:Flagicon Clayton Heafner
Template:Flagicon Herman Keiser
Template:Flagicon Johnny Palmer
Template:Flagicon George Payton		 10,000 2,000 [23]
1946: No tournament'
1945 Template:Flagicon Ben Hogan 261 −27 14 strokes Template:Flagicon Byron Nelson 14,333 2,666 [5][6]
Portland Open
1944 Template:Flagicon Sam Snead 289 +1 2 strokes Template:Flagicon Mike Turnesa 16,000 2,675 [4]

Playoffs

  • 1948: 18-hole Monday playoff: Haas 70 (−2), Hogan 71 (−1), Palmer 75 (+3).[9]
  • 1963: Knudson chipped in for eagle on the first playoff hole, a par-5, for the win; Rudolph nearly matched it, but his bounced out.[21]

See also

References

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