Eastern Open Invitational

The Eastern Open Invitational, first played as the Eastern Open, was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played in Maryland in the 1950s and early 1960s. The first nine events were played at Mt. Pleasant Municipal Golf Club in Baltimore, an 18-hole par-71 public course designed by Gus Hook and opened in 1933.^[1] For the next three years beginning with the 1959 event, the tournament moved to the new Pine Ridge Golf Club in Lutherville, three miles north of downtown Towson. This course, which overlooks the Loch Raven Reservoir, was built by Gus Hook in 1958.^[2] The tournament moved back to Mt. Pleasant after the 1961 event.^[3]

Winners[]

Year	Player	Country	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share ($)
Eastern Open Invitational
1962	Doug Ford	United States	279	−9	1 stroke	Bob Goalby	5,300
1961	Doug Sanders	United States	275	−13	1 stroke	Ken Venturi	5,300
1960	Gene Littler	United States	273	−15	2 strokes	Gary Player	3,500
1959	Dave Ragan	United States	273	−15	1 stroke	Gene Littler	2,800
1958	Art Wall Jr.	United States	276	−12	Playoff	Jack Burke Jr. Bob Rosburg	2,800
1957	Tommy Bolt	United States	276	−12	4 strokes	Billy Casper Fred Hawkins	2,800
Eastern Open
1956	Arnold Palmer	United States	277	−11	2 strokes	Dow Finsterwald	3,800
1955	Frank Stranahan	United States	280	−8	1 stroke	Art Wall Jr.	3,000
1954	Bob Toski	United States	277	−11	7 strokes	Jack Burke Jr.	4,000
1953	Dick Mayer	United States	279	−9	4 strokes	Doug Ford Chandler Harper	2,400
1952	Sam Snead	United States	275	−13	2 strokes	Ed Oliver	2,400
1951	Cary Middlecoff	United States	279	−9	1 stroke	Jerry Barber	2,400
1950	Lloyd Mangrum	United States	279	−9	2 strokes	Clayton Heafner	2,600

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