Sam Snead Festival

The Sam Snead Festival was an unofficial money golf tournament, played from 1948 to 1961, at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. ^[1] It attracted many PGA Tour players and was won by longtime Greenbrier club pro Sam Snead six times.

The tournament began as the Greenbrier Pro-Am in 1948, ^[2] and was a 36-hole pro-amateur event with 18 invited top professionals of the day. Prizes were awarded for both the professional medal total and the pro-am best ball total. The event went to four rounds the next year; the first 36 holes with just the professionals, the amateurs joining in for the final 36 holes.

Winners

Sam Snead Festival

• 1961 Sam Snead
• 1960 Dave Marr
• 1959 Sam Snead

Greenbrier Invitational

• 1958 Sam Snead
• 1957 Dutch Harrison

Greenbrier Pro-Am

• 1956 Ed Oliver
• 1955 Dutch Harrison
• 1954 Herman Scharlau
• 1953 Sam Snead
• 1952 Sam Snead
• 1951 Sam Snead
• 1950 Ben Hogan
• 1949 Cary Middlecoff
• 1948 Henry Cotton

See also

• Greenbrier Classic, PGA Tour event starting in 2010
• The Greenbrier American Express Championship, Senior PGA Tour event from 1985–87
• White Sulphur Springs Open, a PGA Tour event, held irregularly in the 1920s and 1930s

References

1. The Greenbrier: Snead the biggest winner in W. Virginia
2. "Cotton Says U.S. Golf Links Favor Big Fellows". The Pittsburgh Press. April 19, 1948. p. 22.