Panama Open

The Panama Open was a golf tournament played from 1938 to 1982, during which time it was won by some of the biggest names in professional golf, including Sam Snead and Arnold Palmer. It was an event on the PGA-sponsored Caribbean Tour between 1958 and 1974.^[1] Following the demise of the Caribbean Tour the tournament was not played for several years, until there was a brief revival between 1979 and 1982.

Panasonic Panama Open

Tournament information
Location	Coloncito, Panama
Established	1938
Course(s)	Coronado Beach and Golf Resort
Par	72
Tour(s)	Tour de las Américas Challenge Tour Canadian Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	US$200,000
Month played	December
Final year	2004
Tournament record score
Aggregate	265 Roberto De Vicenzo (1973)
To par	−23 as above
Final champion
Richard McEvoy
Location map
Coronado Beach & Golf Resort Location in Panama

The Panama Open was revived in 1996, when it was an unofficial event on the Canadian Tour; it became an official tournament in 2001 and 2002.^[2] In 2003, it was an event on the Tour de las Américas, and the following year, it was co-sanctioned by the European Challenge Tour (2005 season).

Winners

Year	Tour(s)[a]	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Ref.
Panasonic Panama Open
2004	CHA, TLA	Richard McEvoy	277	−11	1 stroke	Marco Ruiz	[3]
Samsung Panama Open
2003	TLA	Charles Warren	284	−4	1 stroke	Ken Duke	[4]
Panasonic Panama Open
2002	CAN[b]	Mario Tiziani	273	−15	Playoff	David Kirkpatrick Chad Wright	[5]
2001	CAN	Steve Runge	272	−16	2 strokes	Jonathan Byrd	[6]
Panama Open
2000		Steve Haskins
1999		Gustavo Mendoza			Playoff	Sonny Skinner
1998		Bob Friend	281	−7	Playoff	Rick Todd	[7]
1997		Garrett Willis			Playoff	Clark Dennis	[8]
1996		Jaime Gomez	210[c]	−6	Playoff	Rafael Alarcón Joe Cioe	[9]
1983–1995: No tournament
1982		George Burns	275				[10]
1981		Curtis Strange	204[c]				[10]
1980		Bruce Fleisher	267				[10]
1979		Butch Baird (3) Chi-Chi Rodríguez	267		Title shared[d]		[10]
1975–1978: No tournament
1974		Roberto De Vicenzo (5)	265	−23	7 strokes	Florentino Molina	[11]
1973		Roberto De Vicenzo (4)	271	−17	8 strokes	Peter Oosterhuis	[12]
1972		Lu Liang-Huan	279	−9	2 strokes	Rogelio González Luis Carlos Pinto	[13]
1971		Roberto De Vicenzo (3)	273	−15	4 strokes	Peter Townsend	[14]
1970		Herb Hooper	275	−13	2 strokes	Jay Dolan	[15]
1969		Butch Baird (2)	276	−12	Playoff	Rogelio González Bob Ross	[16]
1968		Butch Baird	267	−21	11 strokes	Wes Ellis Vicente Fernández	[17]
1967		Bert Weaver	274	−14	3 strokes	Art Wall Jr.	[18]
1966		Wilf Homenuik	283	−5	1 stroke	Stan Mosel	[19]
1965		Art Wall Jr.	277	−11	4 strokes	Wes Ellis	[20]
1964: No tournament
1963		George Knudson	280	−8	4 strokes	Joe Jimenez Ernie Vossler	[21]
1962		Jim Ferree	277	−11	1 stroke	Billy Maxwell	[22]
1961		Pete Cooper (2)	273	−15	5 strokes	Ernie Vossler	[23]
1960		Ernie Vossler	269	−19	3 strokes	Dow Finsterwald	[24]
1959		Pete Cooper	274	−14	3 strokes	Don January	[25]
1958		Bob Watson	271	−17	1 stroke	Art Wall Jr.	[26]
1957		Doug Ford	277	−11	2 strokes	Dow Finsterwald	[27]
1956		Arnold Palmer	283	−5	Playoff	Sam Snead	[28]
1955		Antonio Cerdá	273	−15	1 stroke	Roberto De Vicenzo Arnold Palmer	[29]
1954		Sam Snead	271	−17	6 strokes	Roberto De Vicenzo	[30]
1953		Roberto De Vicenzo (2)	274	−14	3 strokes	Charlie Harper Clayton Heafner Sam Snead	[31]
1952		Roberto De Vicenzo	282	−6	3 strokes	Sam Snead	[32]
1951		Johnny MacMurray (a) (4)	284	−4	3 strokes	Raúl Posse Gene Kunes Harvey Breaux (a)	[33]
1950		Raúl Posse	284				[10]
1949		Johnny MacMurray (a) (3)	288				[10]
1948		Johnny MacMurray (a) (2)	283				[34]
1947		Herb Mitten (a)	293				[10]
1946		Charlie Grant	299				[10]
1945		Tony Tiso (2)	291				[10]
1944		Marion Reid (a)	299				[10]
1943		Tony Tiso (2)	291				[10]
1942		Lou Barbaro	297				[10]
1941		Al Escalante	298				[10]
1940		Johnny MacMurray (a)	301				[10]
1939		Jimmy Vincent (2)	301				[10]
1939		Jimmy Vincent	304				[10]

See also

• Open golf tournament
• Panama Championship

Notes

1. CAN − Canadian Tour; CHA − Challenge Tour; TLA − Tour de las Américas.
2. In 2002, the event was sanctioned by the Canadian Tour, but did not count towards the Order of Merit.
3. Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
4. Title shared when darkness ended play with Baird and Rodríguez still tied after two holes of a sudden-death playoff.