Hershey Open
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The Hershey Open was a golf tournament in Pennsylvania on the PGA Tour from 1933 to 1941. It was played at the Hershey Country Club in Hershey on what is now called the West Course.[2] It was played as a 72-hole stroke play event every year except 1938. That year, it was played as a 126-hole round-robin match play tournament with eight two-man teams and called the Hershey Four-Ball;[3] its format was identical to the one used by the Inverness Invitational Four-Ball. The event was not held in 1940, when the club hosted the PGA Championship.
Tournament information | |
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Location | Hershey, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Established | 1933 |
Course(s) | Hershey Country Club |
Par | 73 |
Length | 7,000 yards (6,400 m)[1] |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Prize fund | $5,000 |
Final year | 1941 |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 275 Ben Hogan (1941) |
To par | −17 same |
Final champion | |
Ben Hogan | |
Location map | |
Three times it was won by the resident golf pro—Henry Picard in 1936 and 1937 and Ben Hogan in his first year at Hershey in 1941.[1] His win in 1938 in the team event with Vic Ghezzi was Hogan's first as a professional;[3] his first win as an individual came in March 1940 in North Carolina.[4][5]