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Yorkshire Evening News Tournament

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First tournament (1923)
First tournament (1923)

The Yorkshire Evening News Tournament was an international golf tournament in the English Yorkshire area before the European Tour was founded. It was a match play tournament for most of its existence, but switched to stroke play in the 1940s. The tournament was played annually from 1923 to 1963, with no tournaments held during World War II.

In the early years, this tournament was considered a British major golf tournament. "The first tournament, in 1923, was billed as the unofficial ‘Championship of the World’ between American superstars Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen. Hagen triumphed, but lost in the final by a two-hole margin to Ryder Cup star Herbert Jolly."[1]

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a historic county in Northern England and the largest by area size in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other English counties, functions have been undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform. Throughout these changes, Yorkshire has continued to be recognised as a geographic territory and cultural region.

Match play

Match play

Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes. In match play the winner is the player, or team, with the most points at the end of play.

Stroke play

Stroke play

Stroke play, also known as medal play, is a scoring system in the sport of golf in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes. In stroke play, the winner is the player who has taken the fewest strokes over the course of the round, or rounds.

World War II

World War II

World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, fought as part of two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. Many participants threw their economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind this total war, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and the delivery of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war.

Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen

Walter Charles Hagen was an American professional golfer and a major figure in golf in the first half of the 20th century. His tally of 11 professional majors is third behind Jack Nicklaus (18) and Tiger Woods (15). Known as the "father of professional golf," he brought publicity, prestige, big prize money, and lucrative endorsements to the sport. Hagen is rated one of the greatest golfers ever.

Gene Sarazen

Gene Sarazen

Gene Sarazen was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s, and the winner of seven major championships. He is one of five players to win each of the four majors at least once, now known as the Career Grand Slam: U.S. Open , PGA Championship , The Open Championship (1932), and Masters Tournament (1935).

Herbert Jolly

Herbert Jolly

Herbert Charles Jolly was a professional golfer. He is best known for being a member of the first British Ryder Cup team in 1927. He also played for Britain in the international match against America at Wentworth in 1926.

Winners

Year Venue Winner Country Score Margin
of victory		 Runner(s)-up Winner's
share (£)		 Ref
1963 Sand Moor Golf Club Tom Haliburton  Scotland 280 1 stroke Australia Peter Thomson 1,000 [2]
1962 Moortown Golf Club Peter Butler  England 273 4 strokes England Ken Bousfield 1,000 [3]
1961 Sand Moor Golf Club Peter Thomson  Australia 282 1 stroke Wales Dai Rees [4]
1960 Moortown Golf Club Peter Thomson  Australia 268 5 strokes England Bernard Hunt 500 [5]
1959 Sand Moor Golf Club Norman Drew  Northern Ireland 281 4 strokes England Peter Alliss
South Africa Harold Henning
Australia Peter Thomson		 500 [6]
1958 Moortown Golf Club Eric Brown &
Harold Henning		  Scotland
 South Africa		 280 Tie Shared title Share 500 &
250		 [7]
1957 Sand Moor Golf Club Peter Thomson  Australia 264 15 strokes Republic of Ireland Harry Bradshaw 500 [8]
1956 Moortown Golf Club Ken Bousfield &
Dai Rees		  England
 Wales		 281 Tie Shared title Share 500 &
250		 [9]
1955 Sand Moor Golf Club Antonio Cerdá  Argentina 276 3 strokes England Harry Weetman 500 [10]
1954 Moortown Golf Club John Panton  Scotland 284 1 stroke England Ken Bousfield
England Bernard Hunt		 500 [11]
1953 Sand Moor Golf Club Flory Van Donck  Belgium 278 1 stroke Republic of Ireland Harry Bradshaw 500 [12]
1952 Moortown Golf Club Dai Rees  Wales 283 1 stroke England Henry Cotton
England Syd Scott		 [13]
1951 Moortown Golf Club Dai Rees &
Norman Von Nida		  Wales
 Australia		 281 Tie Shared title Share 300 &
150		 [14]
1950 Sand Moor Golf Club Dai Rees  Wales 276 8 strokes England Arthur Lees [15]
1949 Moortown Golf Club Sam King  England 6 & 5 England Walter Lees [16]
1948 Moortown Golf Club Charlie Ward  England 275 3 strokes Australia Norman Von Nida [17]
1947 Moortown Golf Club Norman Von Nida &
Henry Cotton		  Australia
 England		 277 Tie Shared title Share 200 &
100		 [18]
1946 Moortown Golf Club Bobby Locke  South Africa 283 7 strokes England A G Matthews
Wales Dai Rees		 [19]
1945 Moortown Golf Club Archie Compston  England 148 5 strokes England Bill Cox [20]
1944 Roundhay Golf Club Sam King  England 133 6 strokes Australia Bill Shankland [21]
1940–43: No tournament due to World War II
1939 Temple Newsam Golf Club Dai Rees  Wales 37 holes England Jack Hargreaves 150 [22]
1938 Leeds Golf Club Alf Perry  England 8 & 6 England Vernon Greenhalgh [23]
1937 Moortown Golf Club Arthur Lacey  England 2 & 1 Scotland John Fallon [24]
1936 Temple Newsam Golf Club Dick Burton  England 3 & 2 England A G Matthews [25]
1935 Sand Moor Golf Club Henry Cotton  England 3 & 2 England Percy Alliss 150 [26]
1934 Moortown Golf Club Alf Padgham  England 37 holes South Africa Sid Brews [27]
1933 Temple Newsam Golf Club Arthur Lacey  England 2 & 1 England Alf Padgham [28]
1932 Moortown Golf Club Bert Hodson  Wales 39 holes England Fred Robson [29]
1931 Sand Moor Golf Club Ernest Whitcombe  England 39 holes England Tom Barber [30]
1930 Headingley Golf Club Herbert Jolly  Guernsey 3 & 1 England Owen Sanderson 200 [31]
1929 Moortown Golf Club Joe Turnesa  United States 37 holes Guernsey Herbert Jolly 200 [32][33]
1928 Moortown Golf Club Charles Whitcombe  England 3 & 2 Guernsey Herbert Jolly [34]
1927 Headingley Golf Club Ernest Whitcombe  England 9 & 8 Guernsey Herbert Jolly [35]
1926 Moortown Golf Club Charles Whitcombe  England 9 & 8 Republic of Ireland Moses O'Neill [36]
1925 Moortown Golf Club Len Holland  England 3 & 2 England James Ockenden [37]
1924 Headingley Golf Club Fred Robson  England 37 holes England Archie Compston [38]
1923 Headingley Golf Club Herbert Jolly  Guernsey 2 up United States Walter Hagen [39][40]

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Tom Haliburton

Tom Haliburton

Thomas Bruce Haliburton was a Scottish golfer. He finished tied for 5th in the 1957 Open Championship and played in the 1961 and 1963 Ryder Cups. He died, playing golf, at Wentworth where he had been the professional for over 20 years.

Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a 96-mile (154-kilometre) border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. It also contains more than 790 islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt—the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands—in the Scottish Lowlands.

Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of 7,617,930 square kilometres (2,941,300 sq mi), Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the centre, tropical rainforests in the north-east, and mountain ranges in the south-east.

Peter Thomson (golfer)

Peter Thomson (golfer)

Peter William Thomson was an Australian professional golfer. He won the Open Championship five times between 1954 and 1965. Thomson is the only golfer in the modern era to win a major three times in succession – The Open in 1954, 1955 and 1956.

Moortown Golf Club

Moortown Golf Club

Moortown Golf Club is a golf club located in Alwoodley, near Leeds, England. It was founded in 1909, and the championship golf course was designed by Dr Alister MacKenzie.

Peter Butler (golfer)

Peter Butler (golfer)

Peter Joseph Butler was an English professional golfer. He was one of the leading British golfers of the 1960s and early 1970s. He won a number of important tournaments including the 1963 PGA Close Championship and the 1968 French Open. He played in four Ryder Cup matches between 1965 and 1973 and three times in the World Cup. He played in the Open Championship 23 times, with two top-10 finishes, and seven successive times in the Masters from 1964 to 1970.

England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea area of the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.

Ken Bousfield

Ken Bousfield

Ken Bousfield was one of the leading British golfers of the immediate post-World War II period.

Dai Rees

Dai Rees

David James Rees, was one of the Britain's leading golfers either side of the Second World War.

Bernard Hunt

Bernard Hunt

Bernard John Hunt, MBE was an English professional golfer.

Norman Drew

Norman Drew

Norman Vico Drew is a Northern Irish professional golfer. He had a successful amateur career, winning a number of important Irish championships and playing in the 1953 Walker Cup. He an exceptionally successful season in 1959 when he won the Yorkshire Evening News Tournament and played in the Ryder Cup. Hr later represented Ireland in the Canada Cup, becoming the first golfer to play in the Walker Cup, Ryder Cup and Canada Cup. He was renowned for his short game.

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares an open border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. In 2021, its population was 1,903,100, making up about 27% of Ireland's population and about 3% of the UK's population. The Northern Ireland Assembly, established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998, holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the UK Government. The government of Northern Ireland cooperates with the government of the Republic of Ireland in several areas agreed under the terms of the Belfast Agreement. The Republic of Ireland also has a consultative role on non-devolved governmental matters through the British-Irish Governmental Conference (BIIG).

Source: "Yorkshire Evening News Tournament", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, October 20th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Evening_News_Tournament.

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