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The Great Britain–Argentina Professional Match was a men's team golf competition between teams of six professional golfers from Great Britain and Argentina. It was played on the Lady Dorothy Course at Temple Newsam Golf Club on Monday 5 June 1939, just before the Yorkshire Evening News Tournament which started the following day. The match resulted in a 5–3 victory for the British team with one match halved.[1]
Temple Newsam Golf Club
Location in England
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Background
A team of six golfers from Argentine visited Europe in the summer of 1939, under the auspices of the Argentine Golf Association.[2] The team was accompanied by Juan Dentone and Armando Blasi.[3] The team arrived in England at the end of May and stayed until mid-July. During their stay they played in the Yorkshire Evening News Tournament, the Open de France and The Open Championship. They also played in a number of exhibition matches. The match between the team and a team of British professionals selected by the PGA was arranged for the day before the start of the Yorkshire Evening News Tournament. The captains were Arthur Lacey and José Jurado.[4]
Martin Pose was the most successful player during the tour. He reached the semi-final of the Yorkshire Evening News Tournament before losing to Dai Rees at the 20th hole.[5] He then won the Open de France at Le Touquet, beating Tom Odams by a stroke.[6] He was also the leading Argentine golfer in the Open Championship, on the Old Course, finishing in 8th place, having been in second place after the first two days.[7]
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Format
The match was contested on a single day. There were three 18-hole foursomes matches in the morning with six 18-hole single matches in the afternoon.
Morning foursomes matches
Afternoon singles matches
References
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