Greater Jacksonville Open

Golf tournament formerly on the PGA Tour

"Jacksonville Open" redirects here. For the Nationwide Tour event, see Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open. For the LPGA Tour event, see Jacksonville Ladies Open.

Golf tournament

Greater Jacksonville OpenTournament information

Location| Lauderhill, Florida
Established| 1945
Course(s)| Inverrary Country Club
Par| 72
Tour(s)| PGA Tour
Format| Stroke play
Prize fund| US$175,000
Month played| March
Final year| 1976
Tournament record score
Aggregate| 264 Sam Snead (1946)
To par| −24 as above
Final champion
Hubert Green
Location map

Inverrary CC

Location in the United States

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Inverrary CC

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The Greater Jacksonville Open was a PGA Tour event that was played from 1945 until 1976.

Shortly after World War II, the Jacksonville Open began play as a PGA Tour event in Jacksonville, Florida at the Hyde Park Golf Club until it was discontinued in the mid-1950s. In the mid-1960s, the PGA Tour came to town again. This time the event was initially named the Jacksonville Open again and changed for the 1968 event to the Jacksonville Open Invitational. The name was changed to the Greater Jacksonville Open for the 1969 event.

The Greater Jacksonville Open was discontinued after the 1976 tournament when the PGA Tour decided to relocate The Players Championship to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The PGA Tour had been looking for some time for a permanent home for the marquee event which has professional golf's highest prize fund and is sometimes referred to as the "fifth major". The Players Championship had been played at the Atlanta Country Club in Marietta, Georgia in 1974, the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth in 1975 and at the Inverrary Country Club in Ft. Lauderdale in 1976. The Greater Jacksonville Open laid the groundwork and provided much of the infrastructure for the modern Players Championship, which was first played in Ponte Vedra Beach in 1977.[1]

## Tournament highlights

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* 1947: During his third round, Ben Hogan scores eleven on the par-3 6th hole.[2]
* 1952: At the end of regulation play, Doug Ford and Sam Snead were tied for the lead. An 18-hole playoff was scheduled for the next day but rather than play, Snead forfeited. The forfeit stemmed from a ruling Snead received during the tournament's second round of play. On the 10th hole, Snead's drive landed behind an out of bounds stake. While Chick Harbert who was playing with Snead thought the ball was out of bounds,[3] a rules official ruled differently due to the starter not telling players the stakes had been moved since the previous day's play had ended. Afterwards Snead explained why he forfeited even though Ford suggested they play sudden death for the title. "I want to be fair about it. I don't want anyone to think I took advantage of the ruling."[4]
* 1965: Bert Weaver wins the first modern version of the tournament. He finishes one shot ahead of Bruce Devlin, Jack Nicklaus, Bob Charles, and Dave Marr.[5]
* 1966: Jack Nicklaus makes a double eagle[6] on the tournament's final hole but can finish no better than tied for eighth. Doug Sanders is the winner by one shot over Gay Brewer.[7]
* 1967: Jacksonville native Dan Sikes wins by one shot over Bill Collins.[8]
* 1968: Tony Jacklin becomes the first English golfer to win on the PGA Tour. He finishes two shots ahead of DeWitt Weaver, Chi-Chi Rodríguez, Doug Sanders, and Don January.[9]
* 1972: Tony Jacklin takes home his second Jacksonville title via a sudden death playoff win over John Jacobs.[10] No Englishman would win a PGA Tour event on US soil again till Nick Faldo triumphed at the 1983 Sea Pines Heritage.[11]
* 1975: Larry Ziegler shoots a final round 65 to win by two shots over Mike Morley and Mac McLendon.[12]
* 1976: Hubert Green wins the last edition of the tournament. He finishes two shots ahead of Miller Barber.[13]

## Winners

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Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of
victory | Runner(s)-up

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Greater Jacksonville Open
1976 |  Hubert Green (2) | 276 | −12 | 2 strokes |  Miller Barber
1975 |  Larry Ziegler | 276 | −12 | 2 strokes |  Mac McLendon
Mike Morley
1974 |  Hubert Green | 276 | −12 | 3 strokes |  John Mahaffey
1973 |  Jim Colbert | 279 | −9 | 1 stroke |  Lou Graham
Johnny Miller
Dan Sikes
Jim Wiechers
1972 |  Tony Jacklin (2) | 283 | −5 | Playoff |  John Jacobs
1971 |  Gary Player | 281 | −7 | Playoff |  Hal Underwood
1970 |  Don January | 279 | −9 | Playoff |  Dale Douglass
1969 |  Raymond Floyd | 278 | −10 | Playoff |  Gardner Dickinson
Jacksonville Open Invitational
1968 |  Tony Jacklin | 273 | −15 | 2 strokes |  Gardner Dickinson
Don January
Chi-Chi Rodríguez
Doug Sanders
DeWitt Weaver
Jacksonville Open
1967 |  Dan Sikes | 279 | −9 | 1 stroke |  Bill Collins
1966 |  Doug Sanders | 273 | −15 | 1 stroke |  Gay Brewer
1965 |  Bert Weaver | 285 | −3 | 1 stroke |  Bob Charles
Bruce Devlin
Dave Marr
Jack Nicklaus
1954–1964: No tournament
1953 |  Lew Worsham | 272 | −16 | 1 stroke |  Jim Ferrier
1952 |  Doug Ford | 280 | −8 | Playoff |  Sam Snead
1951 |  Jim Ferrier | 272 | −16 | 11 strokes |  Lloyd Mangrum
Jack Shields
1950 |  Cary Middlecoff (2) | 279 | −9 | 2 strokes |  George Fazio
1949 |  Cary Middlecoff | 274 | −10 | 2 strokes |  Jerry Barber
1948 |  Chick Harbert | 284 | −4 | 1 stroke |  Skip Alexander
Vic Ghezzi
1947 |  Clayton Heafner | 281 | −3 | Playoff |  Lew Worsham
1946 |  Sam Snead (2) | 264 | −24 | 4 strokes |  Jimmy Demaret
1945 |  Sam Snead | 266 | −22 | 4 strokes |  Bob Hamilton

## References

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1. ^ Kerr, Jessie-Lynne (July 20, 2007). "Montgomery championed pro golf in area". The Times-Union. Retrieved 2007-11-04.
2. ^ Ward, Andrew (1999). Golf's Strangest Rounds. London: Robson Books. p. 146\. ISBN 1861051840.
3. ^ Ford gets first major golf win
4. ^ "Sam Snead Forfeits First in Jacksonville Open". The Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. March 25, 1952. p. 12 - via Google News.
5. ^ Bert Weaver wins Jacksonville Open golf tournament
6. ^ Big Jack gets double eagle; First of career
7. ^ Doug Sanders wins $82,000 Jacksonville Open golf tourney
8. ^ Hometown hero Dan Sikes takes Jacksonville Open
9. ^ Cool Tony Jacklin wins Jacksonville
10. ^ Tony Jacklin is winner in Jacksonville
11. ^ Faldo rises to Kite's challenge to win
12. ^ Ziegler takes Jacksonville
13. ^ Hubert Green captures another tourney win

## External links

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* Tournament results (1970–76) at GolfObserver.com

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