Motor City Open
The Motor City Open was a PGA Tour event played at various clubs in and around Detroit, USA, eight times between 1948 and 1962.
The PGA Tour record for the longest sudden-death playoff was established at the 1949 Motor City Open. Cary Middlecoff and Lloyd Mangrum played 11 holes at Meadowbrook Country Club in Northville, Michigan and were still stalemated when darkness arrived. Tournament officials, with their mutual consent, declared them joint winners.[1]
In 1955, the Motor City Open was originally to be played at Meadowbrook Country Club. This was abandoned however, when Meadowbrook's professional, Chick Harbert, won the PGA Championship in 1954. Meadowbrook petitioned for and won the opportunity to host the 1955 PGA Championship and, because of this development, the Motor City Open was not held in 1955. This is the only time that a defending champion of a major championship has hosted the tournament the following year.[citation needed]
In 2019, the Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club in the city of Detroit replaced The National in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.[citation needed]
Tournament hosts
- 1948, 1949, 1954, 1959 Meadowbrook Country Club (Northville, Michigan)
- 1950, 1952 Red Run Golf Club (Royal Oak, Michigan)
- 1956 Western Golf and Country Club (Redford, Michigan)
- 1962 Knollwood Country Club (West Bloomfield, Michigan)
Winners
Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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1948 | Ben Hogan | 275 | −9 | Playoff | Dutch Harrison |
1949 | Lloyd Mangrum Cary Middlecoff | 273 | −11 | Title shared[a] | |
1950 | Lloyd Mangrum (2) | 274 | −14 | 1 stroke | Sam Snead |
1951: No tournament | |||||
1952 | Cary Middlecoff (2) | 274 | −14 | Playoff | Ted Kroll |
1953: No tournament | |||||
1954 | Cary Middlecoff (3) | 278 | −6 | 2 strokes | Tommy Bolt Marty Furgol Gene Littler |
1956 | Bob Rosburg | 284 | −4 | Playoff | Ed Furgol |
1957–58: No tournament | |||||
1959 | Mike Souchak | 268 | −16 | 9 strokes | Billy Casper Doug Ford |
1960–61: No tournament | |||||
1962 | Bruce Crampton | 267 | −17 | 3 strokes | Dave Hill Don Massengale |
- ^ Title shared when darkness ended play with Mangrum and Middlecoff still tied after 11 holes of a sudden-death playoff.
References
- ^ "Cary Middlecoff bio". World Golf Hall of Fame. Retrieved 5 November 2007.[dead link]
- Brent Kelley (1 June 2017). "Longest Sudden-Death Playoffs". ThoughtCo. Archived from the original on 19 January 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
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