Penfold Tournament

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The Penfold Tournament was a golf tournament on the European circuit/European Tour. It was played from 1932 to 1974 at a variety of courses. The purse for the 1974 event was £11,388.

It was generally played as an individual stroke play event but in 1949 it was played as a two-man team match play event. In 1950, it was played at mixed-team match play. 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. It returned to a stroke play format in 1955.

[edit] Winners

Year	Winner	Country	Course
Penfold Tournament
1974	Tommy Horton	Jersey	Hill Barn GC
1973	Eddie Polland	Northern Ireland	Queens Park GC
Penfold Bounemouth Tournament
1972	Peter Oosterhuis	England	Queens Park GC
1971	Neil Coles	England	Queens Park GC
Penfold Tournament
1970	Bernard Hunt	England	Worthing Hill Barn
1969	Gordon Caygill		Worthing Hill Barn
Swallow-Penfold Tournament
1968	Peter Butler	England	Maesdu
Penfold Tournament
1967	John Cockin		Blackpool North Shore
Swallow-Penfold Tournament
1966	Dave Thomas	Wales	Little Aston
1965	Angel Miguel	Spain	Pannal
1964	Peter Alliss	England	Llandudno
1963	Bernard Hunt	England	Belleisle
1962	Harry Weetman	England	Llandudno
1961	Ken Bousfield	England	Stoneham
1960	Harry Weetman	England	Copt Heath
1959	Peter Butler	England	Barnton
1958	Harry Weetman	England	Prestwick
1957	Harry Weetman	England	Killermont
1956	Eric Lester		Royal Burgess
1955	Christy O'Connor Snr	Ireland	Southport & Ainsdale
Penfold Tournament
1954	Henry Cotton	England	Maesdu
1953	Arthur Lees	England	Maesdu
1952	Eric Brown	Scotland	Maesdu
Penfold-Bournemouth Festival of Britain Tournament
1951	Arthur Lees	England	Queens Park GC
Penfold Tournament
1950	Norman Sutton & Mrs A. Gee		Sutton Coldfield
1949	John Burton & Max Faulkner	? / England	Totteridge
1948	Fred Daly	Northern Ireland	Gleneagles
1947	Dai Rees	Wales	Stoke Park
	Norman Von Nida	Australia
	Reg Whitcombe	England
1946	Norman Sutton		Sutton Coldfield
1937-1945 No tournament
1936	James Adams	England	Belleisle
1935	Percy Alliss	England	Gleneagles
1934	Reg Whitcombe	England	Fairhaven
1933	John Burton		Royal Porthcawl
1932	Percy Alliss	England	Royal Porthcawl