Tournament information | |
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Location | El Paso, Texas |
Established | 1927 |
Course(s) | El Paso 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 | 269 Cary Middlecoff (1952) |
To par | –15 as above |
Final champion | |
Marty Furgol | |
Location map | |
Location in the United States Location in Texas |
The El Paso Open was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour in the late 1920s and the 1950s. It was played at the El Paso Country Club in El Paso, Texas. In 1929, Bill Mehlhorn won with a score of 271, then a record for a 72-hole tournament.[1]