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Penfold Tournament

The Penfold Tournament was a golf tournament on the British PGA tournament circuit. Since the circuit later evolved into the European Tour, the tournament is recognised as an official European Tour event from 1972. It was played between 1932 and 1935, and from 1946 to 1974 at a variety of courses in the United Kingdom. The tournament was sponsored by Penfold Golf and was often played at coastal resorts, whose councils shared the costs.[1] In 1974, Penfold were taken over by Colgate-Palmolive and continued their sponsorship through the Penfold PGA Championship from 1975 to 1977.

Penfold Tournament
Tournament information
LocationWorthing, England
Established1932
Course(s)Hill Barn Golf Club
Par70
Tour(s)European Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund£12,000
Month playedMay
Final year1974
Tournament record score
Aggregate266 Ken Bousfield (1961)
To par−8 Tommy Horton (1974)
Final champion
England Tommy Horton
Location map
Hill Barn GC is located in England
Hill Barn GC
Hill Barn GC
Location in England
Hill Barn GC is located in West Sussex
Hill Barn GC
Hill Barn GC
Location in West Sussex

It was generally played as an individual stroke play event. In 1949 there were two qualifying rounds, after which the leading 32 were drawn into 16 pairs, who then played four rounds of knock-out foursomes match play to determine the winning pair. In 1950, it was played at mixed-team match play. 32 professional men and 32 ladies qualified over 36 holes and were then drawn into pairs. These pairs played five rounds of knock-out foursomes match play to determine the winning pair, the final being over 36 holes. It returned to an individual stroke play format for 1951. From 1952 to 1954, it was played at 36 holes of stroke play followed by match play for the top 32 players.

In 1955 Penfold combined their sponsorship with Swallow Raincoats who had supported the Swallow-Harrogate Tournament in 1953 and 1954. The new tournament was known as the Swallow-Penfold Tournament and had a first prize of £1,000 and total prize money of £4,000. The new event had a 72-hole stroke play format. Swallow dropped their sponsorship after the 1966 event but the tournament continued with £4,000 prize money in 1967. Prize money increased to £8,000 in 1971 and finally £12,000 in 1974.

Winners edit

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Winner's
share (£)		 Venue Ref.
Penfold Tournament
1974   Tommy Horton 272 −8 1 stroke   Peter Tupling 2,000 Hill Barn [2]
Penfold-Bournemouth Tournament
1973   Eddie Polland 281 −3 2 strokes   Doug Sewell 1,500 Queens Park [3]
1972   Peter Oosterhuis 285 +1 Playoff   Christy O'Connor Jnr 1,500 Queens Park [4]
1971   Neil Coles 284 4 strokes   Stuart Brown
  Gordon Cunningham
  Doug Sewell
  Ronnie Shade		 1,500 Queens Park [5]
Penfold Tournament
1970   Bernard Hunt (2) 271 2 strokes   Neil Coles 750 Hill Barn [6]
1969   Alex Caygill 278 2 strokes   Christy O'Connor Snr 750 Hill Barn [7]
1968   Peter Butler (2) 281 Playoff   Dave Thomas 750 Maesdu [8]
1967   John Cockin 275 Playoff   Stan Peach 750 Blackpool North Shore [9]
Swallow-Penfold Tournament
1966   Dave Thomas 281 1 stroke   Bernard Hunt 750 Little Aston [10]
1965   Ángel Miguel 287 Playoff   Lionel Platts 750 Pannal [11]
1964   Peter Alliss 293 1 stroke   Alex Caygill
  Hedley Muscroft		 750 Maesdu [12]
1963   Bernard Hunt 272 9 strokes   Peter Butler 1,000 Belleisle [13]
1962   Harry Weetman (4) 280 3 strokes   Eric Brown 950 Maesdu
North Wales		 [14]
1961   Ken Bousfield 266 6 strokes   Bernard Hunt 950 Stoneham
Southampton Municipal		 [15]
1960   Harry Weetman (3) 271 2 strokes   Christy O'Connor Snr
  Peter Thomson		 1,000 Copt Heath
Olton		 [16]
1959   Peter Butler 280 1 stroke   Harry Weetman 1,000 The Royal Burgess [17]
1958   Harry Weetman (2) 289 Playoff   Harry Bradshaw 1,000 Prestwick [18]
1957   Harry Weetman 270 3 strokes   Peter Alliss
  Alfonso Angelini
  Harold Henning
  Flory Van Donck		 1,000 Glasgow [19]
1956   Eric Lester 275 1 stroke   Max Faulkner 1,000 The Royal Burgess [20]
1955   Christy O'Connor Snr 292 2 strokes   Eric Brown
  Syd Scott		 1,000 Southport and Ainsdale [21]
Penfold Tournament
1954   Henry Cotton 5 and 4   John Jacobs 400 [22]
1953   Arthur Lees (2) 2 up   Ken Bousfield 400 [23]
1952   Eric Brown 6 and 5   Laurie Ayton Jnr 500 [24]
Penfold-Bournemouth Festival of Britain Tournament
1951   Arthur Lees 278 2 strokes   Sam King 650 Queens Park
Meyrick Park		 [25]
Penfold Tournament
1950   Norman Sutton (2) and
  Joan Gee		 1 up   Sam King and
  Audrey Barrett		 [26]
1949   John Burton (2) and
  Max Faulkner		 1 up   Dick Burton and
  Flory Van Donck		 200
(each) 		[27]
1948   Fred Daly 273 3 strokes   Ken Bousfield
  Dai Rees		 200 Gleneagles [28]
1947   Dai Rees
  Norman Von Nida
  Reg Whitcombe (2)		 270 Title shared 120
(each)		 Stoke Poges [29]
1946   Norman Sutton 283 2 strokes   Jimmy Adams 200 Sutton Coldfield [30]
1940–1945: No tournament due to World War II
1935–1939: No tournament
Penfold-Fairhaven Tournament
1934   Reg Whitcombe 284 Playoff   Mark Seymour 150 Fairhaven [31]
Penfold-Porthcawl Tournament
1933   John Burton 292 2 strokes   Reg Whitcombe 150 Royal Porthcawl [32]
1932   Percy Alliss 278 1 stroke   Alf Padgham 150 Royal Porthcawl [33]

References edit

  1. ^ "Penfold can look forward to 1975 with a smile". The Times. 17 December 1974. p. 9.
  2. ^ "Mediocre 72 ends Barnes's challenge". The Glasgow Herald. 13 May 1974. p. 5.
  3. ^ "Polland change approach and breaks through". The Glasgow Herald. 14 May 1973. p. 5.
  4. ^ "Sudden death triumph for Oosterhuis". The Glasgow Herald. 15 May 1972. p. 4.
  5. ^ "Coles takes Penfold first prize with 69 and 70 on last day". The Glasgow Herald. 10 May 1971. p. 4.
  6. ^ "Hunt triumphs in Penfold". The Glasgow Herald. 4 May 1970. p. 5.
  7. ^ "Caygill wins after dispute with opponent". The Glasgow Herald. 5 May 1969. p. 15.
  8. ^ "Butler wins Penfold at extra hole". The Glasgow Herald. 6 May 1968. p. 6.
  9. ^ "Cockin wins Penfold play-off". The Glasgow Herald. 8 May 1967. p. 5.
  10. ^ "Thomas triumphs at Little Aston". The Glasgow Herald. 9 May 1966. p. 5.
  11. ^ "A Miguel triumphs in play-off". The Glasgow Herald. 10 May 1965. p. 7.
  12. ^ "Penfold and Swallow win for Alliss". The Glasgow Herald. 11 May 1964. p. 5.
  13. ^ "Swallow-Penfold win for Hunt". The Glasgow Herald. 13 May 1963. p. 10.
  14. ^ "Penfold-Swallow win for Weetman". The Glasgow Herald. 28 May 1962. p. 4.
  15. ^ "Bousfield's victory by six strokes". The Glasgow Herald. 29 May 1961. p. 9.
  16. ^ "Weetman wins £1,000 prize". The Glasgow Herald. 6 June 1960. p. 4.
  17. ^ "Narrow win by Butler". The Glasgow Herald. 25 May 1959. p. 4.
  18. ^ "Weetman wins Penfold and Swallow event". The Glasgow Herald. 26 May 1958. p. 4.
  19. ^ "Weetman wins by three strokes at Killermont". The Glasgow Herald. 20 May 1957. p. 11.
  20. ^ "First major tournament win for E C Lester". The Glasgow Herald. 21 May 1956. p. 8.
  21. ^ "O'Connor wins Britain's first £1,000 prize". The Glasgow Herald. 28 May 1955. p. 13.
  22. ^ "Cotton's Penfold victory". The Glasgow Herald. 24 May 1954. p. 4.
  23. ^ "Lees wins "Penfold"". The Glasgow Herald. 25 May 1953. p. 9.
  24. ^ "Brown's great win at Maesdu". The Glasgow Herald. 19 May 1952. p. 9.
  25. ^ "Scot finishes third in Penfold golf". The Glasgow Herald. 16 June 1951. p. 2.
  26. ^ "Other golf events". The Glasgow Herald. 26 June 1950. p. 9.
  27. ^ "Rivalry of Burton brothers". The Glasgow Herald. 25 June 1949. p. 2.
  28. ^ "Open Champion's success". The Glasgow Herald. 25 June 1948. p. 6.
  29. ^ "Season's lowest golf aggregate". The Glasgow Herald. 6 September 1947. p. 4.
  30. ^ "Adams second in Penfold tournament". The Glasgow Herald. 9 September 1946. p. 4.
  31. ^ "Three-stroke win for Thomson". The Glasgow Herald. 9 July 1934. p. 19.
  32. ^ "Burton win Porthcawl tournament". The Glasgow Herald. 15 July 1933. p. 3.
  33. ^ "Win for Percy Alliss at Porthcawl". The Glasgow Herald. 16 July 1932. p. 2.

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