Penfold Tournament

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. Penfold continued their sponsorship through the Penfold PGA Championship from 1975 to 1977.

It was generally played as an individual stroke play event. In 1949 there were two qualifying rounds, after which the leading 32 were drawn into 16 pairs, who then played four rounds of knock-out foursomes match play to determine the winning pair. In 1950, it was played at mixed-team match play. 32 professional men and 32 ladies qualified over 36 holes and were then drawn into pairs. These pairs played five rounds of knock-out foursomes match play to determine the winning pair, the final being over 36 holes. 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.

In 1955 Penfold combined their sponsorship with Swallow Raincoats who has supported the Swallow-Harrogate Tournament in 1953 and 1954. The new tournament was known as the Swallow-Penfold Tournament and had a first prize of £1,000 and total prize money of £4,000. The new event had a 72-hole stroke play format.

Winners

Year	Winner	Country	Venue	Score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share (£)	Ref
Penfold Tournament
1974	Tommy Horton	England	Hill Barn Golf Club	272	1 stroke	Peter Tupling	2,000	[1]
Penfold-Bournemouth Tournament
1973	Eddie Polland	Northern Ireland	Queens Park Golf Club	281	2 strokes	Doug Sewell	1,500	[2]
1972	Peter Oosterhuis	England	Queens Park Golf Club	285	Playoff	Christy O'Connor Jnr	1,500	[3]
1971	Neil Coles	England	Queens Park Golf Club	284	4 strokes	Stuart Brown Gordon Cunningham Doug Sewell Ronnie Shade	1,500	[4]
Penfold Tournament
1970	Bernard Hunt	England	Hill Barn Golf Club	271	2 strokes	Neil Coles	750	[5]
1969	Alex Caygill	England	Hill Barn Golf Club	278	2 strokes	Christy O'Connor Snr	750	[6]
1968	Peter Butler	England	Maesdu Golf Club	281	Playoff	Dave Thomas	750	[7]
1967	John Cockin	England	Blackpool North Shore Golf Club	275	Playoff	Stan Peach	750	[8]
Swallow-Penfold Tournament
1966	Dave Thomas	Wales	Little Aston Golf Club	281	1 stroke	Bernard Hunt	750	[9]
1965	Ángel Miguel	Spain	Pannal Golf Club	287	Playoff	Lionel Platts	750	[10]
1964	Peter Alliss	England	Maesdu Golf Club	293	1 stroke	Alex Caygill Hedley Muscroft	750	[11]
1963	Bernard Hunt	England	Belleisle Golf Club	272	9 strokes	Peter Butler		[12]
1962	Harry Weetman	England	Maesdu Golf Club (and North Wales Golf Club)	280	3 strokes	Eric Brown	950	[13]
1961	Ken Bousfield	England	Stoneham Golf Club (and Southampton Municipal Golf Club)	266	6 strokes	Bernard Hunt	950	[14]
1960	Harry Weetman	England	Copt Heath Golf Club (and Olton Golf Club)	271	2 strokes	Christy O'Connor Snr Peter Thomson	1,000	[15]
1959	Peter Butler	England	Barnton, Edinburgh	280	1 stroke	Harry Weetman	1,000	[16]
1958	Harry Weetman	England	Prestwick Golf Club	289	Playoff (18 holes)	Harry Bradshaw	1,000	[17]
1957	Harry Weetman	England	Glasgow Golf Club	270	3 strokes	Peter Alliss Alfonso Angelini Harold Henning Flory Van Donck	1,000	[18]
1956	Eric Lester	England	Barnton, Edinburgh	275	1 stroke	Max Faulkner	1,000	[19]
1955	Christy O'Connor Snr	Ireland	Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club	292	2 strokes	Eric Brown Syd Scott	1,000	[20]
Penfold Tournament
1954	Henry Cotton	England	Maesdu Golf Club	5 & 4		John Jacobs	400	[21]
1953	Arthur Lees	England	Maesdu Golf Club	2 up		Ken Bousfield	400	[22]
1952	Eric Brown	Scotland	Maesdu Golf Club	6 & 5		Laurie Ayton, Jnr	500	[23]
Penfold-Bournemouth Festival of Britain Tournament
1951	Arthur Lees	England	Queens Park Golf Club (and Meyrick Park Golf Club)	278	2 strokes	Sam King	650	[24]
Penfold Tournament
1950	Norman Sutton & Joan Gee	England  England	Sutton Coldfield Golf Club	1 up		Sam King Audrey Barrett		[25]
1949	John Burton & Max Faulkner	England  England	South Herts Golf Club	1 up		Dick Burton Flory Van Donck	200 (each)	[26]
1948	Fred Daly	Northern Ireland	Gleneagles Hotel	273	3 strokes	Ken Bousfield Dai Rees	200	[27]
1947	Dai Rees Norman Von Nida Reg Whitcombe	Wales  Australia  England	Stoke Poges Golf Club	270	Tie		120 (each)	[28]
1946	Norman Sutton	England	Sutton Coldfield Golf Club	283	2 strokes	Jimmy Adams	200	[29]
1940–45: No tournament due to World War II
1938–39: Penfold sponsored the Penfold Professional Golf League
1937: No tournament sponsored
1936: Penfold sponsored the Penfold Scottish Open and Morecambe-Penfold Northern Open Championship
1935: No tournament sponsored
Penfold-Fairhaven Tournament
1934	Reg Whitcombe	England	Fairhaven Golf Club	284	Playoff (36+9 holes)	Mark Seymour	150	[30]
Penfold-Porthcawl Tournament
1933	John Burton	England	Royal Porthcawl Golf Club	292	2 strokes	Reg Whitcombe	150	[31]
1932	Percy Alliss	England	Royal Porthcawl Golf Club	278	1 stroke	Alf Padgham	150	[32]

In the 1934 tournament, both players tied on 142 after the 36-hole playoff. After a further 9 holes Whitcombe scored 34 to Seymour's 36. In 1958 there was an 18-hole playoff in which Weetman beat Bradshaw 76 to 77. In 1965 Miguel beat Platts at the third extra hole with a par 3. In 1967 Cockin beat Peach at the first extra hole with a birdie 4. In 1968 Butler beat Thomas at the first extra hole with a birdie 2. In 1972 Oosterhuis beat O'Connor at the first extra hole with a birdie 3.

References

1. "Mediocre 72 ends Barnes's challenge". The Glasgow Herald. 13 May 1974. p. 5.
2. "Polland change approach and breaks through". The Glasgow Herald. 14 May 1973. p. 5.
3. "Sudden death triumph for Oosterhuis". The Glasgow Herald. 15 May 1972. p. 4.
4. "Coles takes Penfold first prize with 69 and 70 on last day". The Glasgow Herald. 10 May 1971. p. 4.
5. "Hunt triumphs in Penfold". The Glasgow Herald. 4 May 1970. p. 5.
6. "Caygill wins after dispute with opponent". The Glasgow Herald. 5 May 1969. p. 15.
7. "Butler wins Penfold at extra hole". The Glasgow Herald. 6 May 1968. p. 6.
8. "Cockin wins Penfold play-off". The Glasgow Herald. 8 May 1967. p. 5.
9. "Thomas triumphs at Little Aston". The Glasgow Herald. 9 May 1966. p. 5.
10. "A Miguel triumphs in play-off". The Glasgow Herald. 10 May 1965. p. 7.
11. "Penfold and Swallow win for Alliss". The Glasgow Herald. 11 May 1964. p. 5.
12. "Swallow-Penfold win for Hunt". The Glasgow Herald. 13 May 1963. p. 10.
13. "Penfold-Swallow win for Weetman". The Glasgow Herald. 28 May 1962. p. 4.
14. "Bousfield's victory by six strokes". The Glasgow Herald. 29 May 1961. p. 9.
15. "Weetman wins £1,000 prize". The Glasgow Herald. 6 June 1960. p. 4.
16. "Narrow win by Butler". The Glasgow Herald. 25 May 1959. p. 4.
17. "Weetman wins Penfold and Swallow event". The Glasgow Herald. 26 May 1958. p. 4.
18. "Weetman wins by three strokes at Killermont". The Glasgow Herald. 20 May 1957. p. 11.
19. "First major tournament win for E C Lester". The Glasgow Herald. 21 May 1956. p. 8.
20. "O'Connor wins Britain's first £1,000 prize". The Glasgow Herald. 28 May 1955. p. 13.
21. "Cotton's Penfold victory". The Glasgow Herald. 24 May 1954. p. 4.
22. "Lees wins "Penfold"". The Glasgow Herald. 25 May 1953. p. 9.
23. "Brown's great win at Maesdu". The Glasgow Herald. 19 May 1952. p. 9.
24. "Scot finishes third in Penfold golf". The Glasgow Herald. 16 June 1951. p. 2.
25. "Other golf events". The Glasgow Herald. 26 June 1950. p. 9.
26. "Rivalry of Burton brothers". The Glasgow Herald. 25 June 1949. p. 2.
27. "Open Champion's success". The Glasgow Herald. 25 June 1948. p. 6.
28. "Season's lowest golf aggregate". The Glasgow Herald. 6 September 1947. p. 4.
29. "Adams second in Penfold tournament". The Glasgow Herald. 9 September 1946. p. 4.
30. "Three-stroke win for Thomson". The Glasgow Herald. 9 July 1934. p. 19.
31. "Burton win Porthcawl tournament". The Glasgow Herald. 15 July 1933. p. 3.
32. "Win for Percy Alliss at Porthcawl". The Glasgow Herald. 16 July 1932. p. 2.

External links

• Coverage on the European Tour's official site - 1972–74
• Results on where2golf.com
• History of Penfold Golf