Waco Turner Open

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The founder of the tournament, Waco Turner, was a millionaire Oklahoma oilman with a passion for golf. He started Turner's Lodge, a golf resort on what he hoped would flourish into a Script error: No such module "convert". grand development of 3,000 homes with a hotel, restaurants, tennis courts, swimming pools and an airstrip built around three lakes. The project ran into financial difficulties and the PGA left after the 1964 event.[1]

The greatest claim to fame for the tournament is that in 1964 an African American golfer, Pete Brown, won an official PGA Tour event for the first time at this event.[1][2][3]

The development, now called Falconhead Resort, has changed hands repeatedly in the ensuing decades, and only about 400 homes have been built on the 3,000 home sites.[1]

Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1964 Template:Flagicon Pete Brown 280 −8 1 stroke Template:Flagicon Dan Sikes
1963 Template:Flagicon Gay Brewer 280 −12 1 stroke Template:Flagicon Ted Ball
1962 Template:Flagicon Johnny Pott 276 −16 6 strokes Template:Flagicon Mason Rudolph
1961 Template:Flagicon Butch Baird 281 −7 1 stroke Template:Flagicon Rex Baxter

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