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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Greenbrier Invitational
- 1958 Sam Snead
- 1957 Dutch Harrison
Greenbrier Pro-Am
- 1956 Ed Oliver
- 1955 Dutch Harrison
- 1954 Herman Scharlau
- 1953 Sam Snead
- 1952 Sam Snead
- 1951 Sam Snead
- 1950 Ben Hogan
- 1949 Cary Middlecoff
- 1948 Henry Cotton
See also
edit- Greenbrier Classic, PGA Tour event starting in 2010
- The Greenbrier American Express Championship, Senior PGA Tour event from 1985–87
- White Sulphur Springs Open, a PGA Tour event, held irregularly in the 1920s and 1930s
References
edit- ^ The Greenbrier: Snead the biggest winner in W. Virginia
- ^ "Cotton Says U.S. Golf Links Favor Big Fellows". The Pittsburgh Press. April 19, 1948. p. 22.
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