The Beaumont Open Invitational was a golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 tournament on the PGA Tour

PGA Tour

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 that played for two years in the early 1960s at the Terrell Park Municipal Golf Course in Beaumont, Texas

Beaumont, Texas

Beaumont is a city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 118,296 at the 2010 census. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the...

, an 18-hole, par-72, 6,656 yard city-owned course.

The 1961 event was won by 26 year-old Joe Campbell

Joe Campbell (golfer)

Joe E. Campbell is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the late 1950s and 1960s.Campbell was born in Anderson, Indiana. He attended Purdue University where he was a member of the golf team as well as a co-captain of the basketball team. He won the 1955 NCAA Championship...

 by one stroke over Beaumont native Bert Weaver

Bert Weaver

Herbert "Bert" Weaver was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour.A native of Beaumont, Texas, Weaver played collegiate golf at Louisiana State University.Weaver turned professional in 1956...

, and was the first PGA Tour win of his career. The 1962 event was won by 27 year-old Dave Ragan

Dave Ragan

David William Ragan, Jr. is a former American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour.Ragan was born in Daytona Beach, Florida. He attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for the Florida Gators men's golf team in National...

 by three strokes over Dow Finsterwald

Dow Finsterwald

Dow Henry Finsterwald, Sr. is an American professional golfer who is best known for winning the 1958 PGA Championship. He won 11 Tour titles between 1955 and 1963, played on four Ryder Cup teams, and served as non-playing captain for the 1977 U.S. Ryder Cup team.Finsterwald was born and raised in...

, Don Massengale

Don Massengale

Donald Ray Massengale, Sr. was an American professional golfer who won tournaments on both the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour.-Career:...

, and third round leader Lionel Hebert

Lionel Hebert

Lionel P. Hebert was an American golfer. He won five times on the PGA Tour including the 1957 PGA Championship, the last to be held at match play. His older brother Jay won the same event at stroke play in 1960. Lionel also played on the 1957 Ryder Cup team...

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The winners share was $2,800 out of a total purse of $20,000 in both years.