Long Beach Open
Encyclopedia
The Long Beach Open was a golf
tournament on the PGA Tour
. It was held in Long Beach, California
at the Virginia Country Club from 1926 to 1930 and at the Lakewood Country Club from 1949 to 1951.
Long Beah Open
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
The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
. It was held in Long Beach, California
Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...
at the Virginia Country Club from 1926 to 1930 and at the Lakewood Country Club from 1949 to 1951.
Winners
Lakewood Park Open- 1951 Cary MiddlecoffCary MiddlecoffEmmett Cary Middlecoff was a dentist who gave up his practice to become a professional golfer on the PGA Tour in the 1940s....
Long Beah Open
- 1950 Fred HaasFred HaasFrederick T. "Freddie" Haas, Jr. was an American professional golfer.Hass was born in Portland, Arkansas...
- 1949 Ben HoganBen HoganWilliam Ben Hogan was an American golfer, generally considered one of the greatest players in the history of the game...
- 1931-48 No tournament
- 1930 Joe Kirkwood, Sr.Joe Kirkwood, Sr.Joseph Henry Kirkwood, Sr. was a professional golfer who is acknowledged as having put Australian golf on the world map....
and Olin Dutra (tie) - 1928 (Dec.) Walter HagenWalter HagenWalter Charles Hagen was a major figure in golf in the first half of the 20th century. His tally of eleven professional majors is third behind Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods . He won the U.S. Open twice, and in 1922 he became the first native-born American to win the British Open, which he went on...
- 1928 (Jan.) Leo Diegel and Bill MehlhornBill MehlhornWilliam Earl Mehlhorn was an American golfer who played on the PGA Tour in its early days, and was at his best in the 1920s....
(tie) - 1927 Tommy ArmourTommy ArmourThomas Dickson Armour was a Scottish-American professional golfer. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot.Armour was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at Fettes College and the University of Edinburgh....
- 1926 Bill MehlhornBill MehlhornWilliam Earl Mehlhorn was an American golfer who played on the PGA Tour in its early days, and was at his best in the 1920s....