The Hennessy Tournament was an Irish golf tournament played from 1957 to 1965. Christy O'Connor Snr won the event 5 times between 1957 and 1963.[1] The event was sponsored by Hennessy, a cognac distiller.
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Ireland |
| Established | 1957 |
| Format | 72-hole stroke play |
| Final year | 1965 |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 268 Christy O'Connor Snr (1962) |
| Final champion | |
| Christy Greene | |
History edit
Total prize money was £500 in 1957, 500 guineas in 1958, 1960 and 1961, 750 guineas in 1962 and 1963 and £1,500 in 1965. In 1964 Hennessy sponsored a round-robin event, the Hennessy Round-robin Tournament which had prize money of £1,500.
Winners edit
| Year | Venue | Winner | Score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Woodbrook |  Christy O'Connor Snr |
279 | 3 strokes | Jimmy Martin |
[2] |
| 1958 | Clandeboye |  Eric Brown |
279 | 1 stroke | Harry Bradshaw |
[3] |
| 1959 | Cork | Ernie Jones |
278 | 1 stroke |  Norman Drew |
[4] |
| 1960 | Royal Dublin | Christy O'Connor Snr |
270 | 12 strokes | Christy Greene |
[5] |
| 1961 | Balmoral | Christy O'Connor Snr |
276 | 7 strokes | Christy Greene Jimmy Henderson |
[6] |
| 1962 | Clandeboye | Christy O'Connor Snr |
268 | 17 strokes | Billy Kerr Jimmy Kinsella |
[7] |
| 1963 | Clandeboye | Christy O'Connor Snr |
277 | 3 strokes |  Peter Alliss |
[1] |
| 1964 | Replaced by the Hennessy Round-robin Tournament | |||||
| 1965 | Clandeboye | Christy Greene |
275 | 3 strokes | Christy O'Connor Snr |
[8] |
References edit
- ^ a b "Clandeboye Win for O'Connor". Glasgow Herald. 16 August 1963. p. 6.
- ^ "Hennessy Golf". Northern Whig. 27 May 1957. p. 7. Retrieved 13 November 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "E.C. Brown Wins by One Stroke". Glasgow Herald. 22 August 1958. p. 4.
- ^ "Drew beaten by a shot for £100 prize". Belfast Telegraph. 7 September 1959. p. 14. Retrieved 5 June 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Masterly golf win by O'Connor". Belfast Telegraph. 15 August 1960. p. 10. Retrieved 5 June 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Easy Win for O'Connor". Glasgow Herald. 18 May 1961. p. 13.
- ^ "Wedding present for Billy". Belfast Telegraph. 17 August 1962. p. 13. Retrieved 5 June 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Greene wins Hennessy Tournament". The Glasgow Herald. 9 August 1965. p. 5.