Waco Turner Open

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Waco Turner Open
Tournament information
Location Burneyville, Oklahoma
Established1961
Course(s)Turner's Lodge
Par72
Tour(s) PGA Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund US$20,000
Month playedApril/May
Final year1964
Tournament record score
Aggregate276 Johnny Pott (1962)
To par−16 as above
Final champion
Flag of the United States.svg Pete Brown
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Turner's Lodge
Location in the United States
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Turner's Lodge
Location in Oklahoma

The Waco Turner Open was a PGA Tour event that was played in Burneyville, Oklahoma in the early 1960s.

The founder of the tournament, Waco Turner, was a millionaire Oklahoma oilman with a passion for golf. He started Turner's Lodge, a golf resort on what he hoped would flourish into a 2,700-acre (11 km2) grand development of 3,000 homes with a hotel, restaurants, tennis courts, swimming pools and an airstrip built around three lakes. The project ran into financial difficulties and the PGA left after the 1964 event. [1]

The greatest claim to fame for the tournament is that in 1964 an African American golfer, Pete Brown, won an official PGA Tour event for the first time at this event. [1] [2] [3]

The development, now called Falconhead Resort, has changed hands repeatedly in the ensuing decades, and only about 400 homes have been built on the 3,000 home sites. [1]

Winners

YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner-up
1964 Flag of the United States.svg Pete Brown 280−81 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Dan Sikes
1963 Flag of the United States.svg Gay Brewer 280−121 stroke Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ted Ball
1962 Flag of the United States.svg Johnny Pott 276−166 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Mason Rudolph
1961 Flag of the United States.svg Butch Baird 281−71 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Rex Baxter

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Streuli, Ted (April 12, 2006). "500 OK-based Falconhead Resort lots go on auction block". The Oklahoma City Journal Record. Retrieved November 21, 2007.
  2. "The Year in Golf, 1964" . Retrieved November 21, 2007.
  3. "Pete Brown the Facts!". Archived from the original on May 17, 2008. Retrieved November 21, 2007.