500 Festival Open Invitation

500 Festival Open Invitation
Tournament information
LocationSpeedway, Indiana
Established1960
Course(s)Speedway Golf Course
Par72
Tour(s)PGA Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fundUS$100,000
Final year1968
Tournament record score
Aggregate264 Billy Casper (1962)
To par−20 as above
Final champion
United States Billy Casper
Location map
Speedway GC is located in the United States
Speedway GC
Speedway GC
Location in United States
Speedway GC is located in Indiana
Speedway GC
Speedway GC
Location in Indiana

The 500 Festival Open Invitation was a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour, played during the 1960s in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was sponsored by The 500 Festival, a not-for-profit volunteer organization created in 1957 to organize civic events to promote the Indianapolis 500.[1]

The tournament was played at the Speedway Golf Course, located in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway complex; the exception was in 1965, when it was played at Greentree Country Club while the Speedway was undergoing renovations.

  1. ^ "The 500 Festival". Archived from the original on October 29, 2007. Retrieved November 6, 2007.