Sam Snead Festival

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The Sam Snead Festival was an unofficial money golf tournament, played from 1948 to 1961, at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.[1] It attracted many PGA Tour players and was won by longtime Greenbrier club pro Sam Snead six times.

The tournament began as the Greenbrier Pro-Am in 1948,[2] and was a 36-hole pro-amateur event with 18 invited top professionals of the day. Prizes were awarded for both the professional medal total and the pro-am best ball total. The event went to four rounds the next year; the first 36 holes with just the professionals, the amateurs joining in for the final 36 holes.

Winners

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Sam Snead Festival

Greenbrier Invitational

Greenbrier Pro-Am

See also

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References

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  1. ^ The Greenbrier: Snead the biggest winner in W. Virginia
  2. ^ "Cotton Says U.S. Golf Links Favor Big Fellows". The Pittsburgh Press. April 19, 1948. p. 22.