Eastern Open Invitational

For the LPGA golf tournament, see Eastern Women's Open.

The Eastern Open Invitational, first played as the Eastern Open, was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played in Maryland in the 1950s and early 1960s. The first nine events were played at Mt. Pleasant Municipal Golf Club in Baltimore, an 18-hole par-71 public course designed by Gus Hook and opened in 1933.^[1] For the next three years beginning with the 1959 event, the tournament moved to the new Pine Ridge Golf Club in Lutherville, three miles north of downtown Towson. This course, which overlooks the Loch Raven Reservoir, was built by Gus Hook in 1958.^[2] The tournament moved back to Mt. Pleasant after the 1961 event.^[3]

Eastern Open Invitational

Tournament information
Location	Lutherville, Maryland
Established	1950
Course(s)	Pine Ridge Golf Club
Par	72
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	US$35,000
Month played	June
Final year	1962
Tournament record score
Aggregate	273 Dave Ragan (1959) 273 Gene Littler (1960)
To par	−15 as above
Final champion
Doug Ford
Location map
Pine Ridge GC Location in the United States Show map of the United States Pine Ridge GC Location in Maryland Show map of Maryland

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share ($)
Eastern Open Invitational
1962	Doug Ford	279	−9	1 stroke	Bob Goalby	5,300
1961	Doug Sanders	275	−13	1 stroke	Ken Venturi	5,300
1960	Gene Littler	273	−15	2 strokes	Gary Player	3,500
1959	Dave Ragan	273	−15	1 stroke	Gene Littler	2,800
1958	Art Wall Jr.	276	−12	Playoff	Jack Burke Jr. Bob Rosburg	2,800
1957	Tommy Bolt	276	−12	4 strokes	Billy Casper Fred Hawkins	2,800
Eastern Open
1956	Arnold Palmer	277	−11	2 strokes	Dow Finsterwald	3,800
1955	Frank Stranahan	280	−8	1 stroke	Art Wall Jr.	3,000
1954	Bob Toski	277	−11	7 strokes	Jack Burke Jr.	4,000
1953	Dick Mayer	279	−9	4 strokes	Charlie Bassler Doug Ford Chandler Harper	2,400
1952	Sam Snead	275	−13	2 strokes	Ed Oliver	2,400
1951	Cary Middlecoff	279	−9	1 stroke	Jerry Barber	2,400
1950	Lloyd Mangrum	279	−9	2 strokes	Clayton Heafner	2,600