Penfold Tournament

Penfold Tournament

Tournament information
Location	Worthing, England
Established	1932
Course(s)	Hill Barn Golf Club
Par	70
Tour(s)	European Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	£12,000
Month played	May
Final year	1974
Tournament record score
Aggregate	266 Ken Bousfield (1961)
To par	−8 Tommy Horton (1974)
Final champion
Tommy Horton
Location map
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The Penfold Tournament was a golf tournament on the British PGA tournament circuit. Since the circuit later evolved into the European Tour, the tournament is recognised as an official European Tour event from 1972. It was played between 1932 and 1935, and from 1946 to 1974 at a variety of courses in the United Kingdom. The tournament was sponsored by Penfold Golf and was often played at coastal resorts, whose councils shared the costs.^[1] In 1974, Penfold were taken over by Colgate-Palmolive and continued their sponsorship through the Penfold PGA Championship from 1975 to 1977.

It was generally played as an individual stroke play event. In 1949 there were two qualifying rounds, after which the leading 32 were drawn into 16 pairs, who then played four rounds of knock-out foursomes match play to determine the winning pair. In 1950, it was played at mixed-team match play. 32 professional men and 32 ladies qualified over 36 holes and were then drawn into pairs. These pairs played five rounds of knock-out foursomes match play to determine the winning pair, the final being over 36 holes. It returned to an individual stroke play format for 1951. From 1952 to 1954, it was played at 36 holes of stroke play followed by match play for the top 32 players.

In 1955 Penfold combined their sponsorship with Swallow Raincoats who had supported the Swallow-Harrogate Tournament in 1953 and 1954. The new tournament was known as the Swallow-Penfold Tournament and had a first prize of £1,000 and total prize money of £4,000. The new event had a 72-hole stroke play format. Swallow dropped their sponsorship after the 1966 event but the tournament continued with £4,000 prize money in 1967. Prize money increased to £8,000 in 1971 and finally £12,000 in 1974.

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share (£)	Venue	Ref.
Penfold Tournament
1974	Tommy Horton	272	−8	1 stroke	Peter Tupling	2,000	Hill Barn	[2]
Penfold-Bournemouth Tournament
1973	Eddie Polland	281	−3	2 strokes	Doug Sewell	1,500	Queens Park	[3]
1972	Peter Oosterhuis	285	+1	Playoff	Christy O'Connor Jnr	1,500	Queens Park	[4]
1971	Neil Coles	284		4 strokes	Stuart Brown Gordon Cunningham Doug Sewell Ronnie Shade	1,500	Queens Park	[5]
Penfold Tournament
1970	Bernard Hunt (2)	271		2 strokes	Neil Coles	750	Hill Barn	[6]
1969	Alex Caygill	278		2 strokes	Christy O'Connor Snr	750	Hill Barn	[7]
1968	Peter Butler (2)	281		Playoff	Dave Thomas	750	Maesdu	[8]
1967	John Cockin	275		Playoff	Stan Peach	750	Blackpool North Shore	[9]
Swallow-Penfold Tournament
1966	Dave Thomas	281		1 stroke	Bernard Hunt	750	Little Aston	[10]
1965	Ángel Miguel	287		Playoff	Lionel Platts	750	Pannal	[11]
1964	Peter Alliss	293		1 stroke	Alex Caygill Hedley Muscroft	750	Maesdu	[12]
1963	Bernard Hunt	272		9 strokes	Peter Butler	1,000	Belleisle	[13]
1962	Harry Weetman (4)	280		3 strokes	Eric Brown	950	Maesdu North Wales	[14]
1961	Ken Bousfield	266		6 strokes	Bernard Hunt	950	Stoneham Southampton Municipal	[15]
1960	Harry Weetman (3)	271		2 strokes	Christy O'Connor Snr Peter Thomson	1,000	Copt Heath Olton	[16]
1959	Peter Butler	280		1 stroke	Harry Weetman	1,000	The Royal Burgess	[17]
1958	Harry Weetman (2)	289		Playoff	Harry Bradshaw	1,000	Prestwick	[18]
1957	Harry Weetman	270		3 strokes	Peter Alliss Alfonso Angelini Harold Henning Flory Van Donck	1,000	Glasgow	[19]
1956	Eric Lester	275		1 stroke	Max Faulkner	1,000	The Royal Burgess	[20]
1955	Christy O'Connor Snr	292		2 strokes	Eric Brown Syd Scott	1,000	Southport and Ainsdale	[21]
Penfold Tournament
1954	Henry Cotton	5 and 4			John Jacobs	400		[22]
1953	Arthur Lees (2)	2 up			Ken Bousfield	400		[23]
1952	Eric Brown	6 and 5			Laurie Ayton Jnr	500		[24]
Penfold-Bournemouth Festival of Britain Tournament
1951	Arthur Lees	278		2 strokes	Sam King	650	Queens Park Meyrick Park	[25]
Penfold Tournament
1950	Norman Sutton (2) and Joan Gee	1 up			Sam King and Audrey Barrett			[26]
1949	John Burton (2) and Max Faulkner	1 up			Dick Burton and Flory Van Donck	200 (each)		[27]
1948	Fred Daly	273		3 strokes	Ken Bousfield Dai Rees	200	Gleneagles	[28]
1947	Dai Rees Norman Von Nida Reg Whitcombe (2)	270		Title shared		120 (each)	Stoke Poges	[29]
1946	Norman Sutton	283		2 strokes	Jimmy Adams	200	Sutton Coldfield	[30]
1940–1945: No tournament due to World War II
1935–1939: No tournament
Penfold-Fairhaven Tournament
1934	Reg Whitcombe	284		Playoff	Mark Seymour	150	Fairhaven	[31]
Penfold-Porthcawl Tournament
1933	John Burton	292		2 strokes	Reg Whitcombe	150	Royal Porthcawl	[32]
1932	Percy Alliss	278		1 stroke	Alf Padgham	150	Royal Porthcawl	[33]

• Coverage on the European Tour's official site – 1972–74
• Results on where2golf.com
• History of Penfold Golf