Michigan Open
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The Michigan Open is the Michigan
state open golf
tournament, open to both amateur and professional golfers. It is organized by the Michigan section of the PGA of America. It has been played annually since 1916 at a variety of courses around the state.
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
state open 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, open to both amateur and professional golfers. It is organized by the Michigan section of the PGA of America. It has been played annually since 1916 at a variety of courses around the state.
Winners
- 2011 Randy Hutchison
- 2010 Ryan Brehm
- 2009 Ryan Brehm
- 2008 Tom GillisTom GillisThomas Charles Gillis is an American professional golfer.Gillis was born in Pontiac, Michigan, and graduated from Lake Orion High School in Lake Orion, Michigan...
- 2007 Andrew Ruthkoski
- 2006 Scott Hebert
- 2005 Michael Harris
- 2004 Jeff Roth
- 2003 Bob Ackerman
- 2002 Scott Hebert
- 2001 Scott Hebert
- 2000 Scott Hebert
- 1999 Scott Hebert
- 1998 Jeff Roth
- 1997 Scott Hebert
- 1996 Steve Brady
- 1995 Dave Smith
- 1994 Tom GillisTom GillisThomas Charles Gillis is an American professional golfer.Gillis was born in Pontiac, Michigan, and graduated from Lake Orion High School in Lake Orion, Michigan...
- 1993 Brent Veenstra
- 1992 Steve Brady
- 1991 Steve Brady
- 1990 Robert Proben
- 1989 Barry Redmond
- 1988 Ed HumenikEd HumenikEd Humenik is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.Humenik joined the PGA Tour in 1989, gaining his Tour card through qualifying school. After struggling on his rookie year on Tour, he joined the Nationwide Tour in 1990...
- 1987 Jack Seltzer
- 1986 Tim MatthewsTim MatthewsTim Matthews is a British actor who began his career in Fuente Ovejuna at the National Theatre in London and after several other stage jobs found his first television appearance in a supporting role in the premiere episode of Five Children and It in 1991.From 2001 till 2007 he played the role of...
- 1985 Randy Erskine
- 1984 Randy Erskine
- 1983 Buddy Whitten
- 1982 Buddy Whitten
- 1981 Fred Muller
- 1980 Lynn Janson
- 1979 Randy Erskine
- 1978 Randy Erskine
- 1977 Tom Deaton
- 1976 Randy Erskine
- 1975 Bob Ackerman III (amateur)
- 1974 Lynn Janson
- 1973 George BayerGeorge BayerGeorge Bayer was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour....
- 1972 Ron Fox
- 1971 Ted Kondratko
- 1970 Walter BurkemoWalter BurkemoWalter E. Burkemo was an American professional golfer, best known for winning the 1953 PGA Championship....
- 1969 Charles Knowles
- 1968 John Molenda
- 1967 Mike SouchakMike SouchakMichael Souchak was an American professional golfer who won 15 times on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s, and played for the 1959 and 1961 Ryder Cup teams.-Early years, college:...
- 1966 Gene Bone
- 1965 Gene Bone
- 1964 Thom Rosely
- 1963 Phil Wiechman
- 1962 Pete BrownPete Brown (golfer)Pete Brown is an American professional golfer who is best known as the first African American to win a PGA Tour event....
- 1961 John BarnumJohn BarnumJohn O. Barnum was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s....
- 1960 John BarnumJohn BarnumJohn O. Barnum was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s....
- 1959 Dave HillDave Hill (golfer)James David Hill was an American professional golfer. He was the brother of golfer Mike Hill.Hill was born in Jackson, Michigan. He attended the University of Detroit, where he played on the golf team. Hill won 13 times on the PGA Tour, three of which came during his career year of 1969, when he...
- 1958 John BarnumJohn BarnumJohn O. Barnum was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s....
- 1957 Walter BurkemoWalter BurkemoWalter E. Burkemo was an American professional golfer, best known for winning the 1953 PGA Championship....
- 1956 Pete CooperPete Cooper (golfer)Richard Bernice "Pete" Cooper was an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour in the 1940s and 1950s; he was best known for winning the 1976 PGA Seniors' Championship.Cooper turned professional in 1938...
- 1955 Walter BurkemoWalter BurkemoWalter E. Burkemo was an American professional golfer, best known for winning the 1953 PGA Championship....
- 1954 Horton SmithHorton SmithHorton Smith was an American professional golfer, who is best known as the first man to win the Masters Tournament.- Tournament career :...
- 1953 Chick Harbert
- 1952 Mike Dietz
- 1951 Walter BurkemoWalter BurkemoWalter E. Burkemo was an American professional golfer, best known for winning the 1953 PGA Championship....
- 1950 John BarnumJohn BarnumJohn O. Barnum was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s....
- 1949 Al WatrousAl WatrousAlbert Andrew Watrous was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1920s and 1930s....
- 1948 Chick Harbert
- 1947 Buck WhiteBuck White (golfer)O'Neal "Buck" White is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour.White was born in Memphis, Tennessee. White won three times on the PGA Tour between 1946 and 1951....
- 1946 Chuck KocsisChuck KocsisCharles R. Kocsis was an American amateur golfer.The Golf Association of Michigan voted Chuck Kocsis the Michigan amateur golfer of the century and was a member of the first class elected into the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame...
(amateur) - 1945 Chuck KocsisChuck KocsisCharles R. Kocsis was an American amateur golfer.The Golf Association of Michigan voted Chuck Kocsis the Michigan amateur golfer of the century and was a member of the first class elected into the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame...
(amateur) - 1944 Sam Byrd
- 1943 Al WatrousAl WatrousAlbert Andrew Watrous was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1920s and 1930s....
- 1942 Chick Harbert
- 1941 Gib Sellers
- 1940 Emerick Kocsis
- 1939 Marvin Stahl
- 1938 Marvin Stahl
- 1937 Chick Harbert (amateur)
- 1936 Marvin Stahl
- 1935 Jake Fassezke
- 1934 Jake Fassezke
- 1933 Mortie Dutra
- 1932 Clarence Gamber
- 1931 Chuck KocsisChuck KocsisCharles R. Kocsis was an American amateur golfer.The Golf Association of Michigan voted Chuck Kocsis the Michigan amateur golfer of the century and was a member of the first class elected into the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame...
(amateur) - 1930 Al WatrousAl WatrousAlbert Andrew Watrous was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1920s and 1930s....
- 1929 Al WatrousAl WatrousAlbert Andrew Watrous was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1920s and 1930s....
- 1928 George Von Elm
- 1927 Al WatrousAl WatrousAlbert Andrew Watrous was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1920s and 1930s....
- 1926 Al WatrousAl WatrousAlbert Andrew Watrous was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1920s and 1930s....
- 1925 Davey Robertson
- 1924 No record
- 1923 Harry Hampton
- 1922 No record
- 1921 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...
- 1920 Mike BradyMike Brady (golfer)Michael Joseph Brady was an American professional golfer. He was born in Brighton, Massachusetts. He lost in a three-way playoff to John McDermott in the 1911 U.S. Open. He lost to Walter Hagen in a celebrated playoff in the 1919 U.S. Open at the Brae Burn Country Club...
- 1919 Leo Diegel
- 1917-18 No tournament
- 1916 Leo Diegel