Kansas City Open Invitational

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Kansas City Open Invitational

Tournament information
Location	Kansas City, Missouri
Established	1949
Course(s)	Blue Hills Country Club
Par	72
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	US$20,000
Month played	September
Final year	1959
Tournament record score
Aggregate	268 Wally Ulrich (1954)
To par	–24 as above
Final champion
Dow Finsterwald
Location map
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The Kansas City Open Invitational, which played as the Kansas City Open for most of its history, was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played in the greater Kansas City area in the late 1940s and 1950s. A total of four clubs hosted the event. The first event was held at Kansas City's Swope Park Golf Course, now known as Swope Memorial Golf Course, and is the only public course in the Kansas City area ever to have hosted a PGA Tour event.^[1] The Milburn Country Club in Overland Park, Kansas, a par-72, 18-hole championship course built in 1917, hosted the event five times. Kansas City's Hillcrest Country Club, a par-72, 18-hole course built in 1916, hosted the event three times. Two events were held at Blue Hills Country Club, which is also in Kansas City and was built in 1912.